#Peshmerga head to #Kobane as Iraqis say airstrikes not enough against #ISIS
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Kurds in Turkey celebrate waving the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) flag as a peshmerga fighters convoy cross through at the Habur border along the Turkish-Iraqi border with heavy weapons on October 29, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ilyas Akengin)
Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey early on Wednesday ahead of their planned deployment to the Syrian town of Kobane to help fellow Kurds repel an Islamic State of #Iraq and #syria (ISIS) advance which has defied #US-led airstrikes. A Turkish Airlines plane touched down in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa at around 1:15 am amid tight security, a Reuters correspondent said. A convoy of white buses escorted by armored jeeps and police cars left the airport shortly afterwards. read (...)
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