Some 150 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters joined the battle against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the Syrian town of Kobane on Friday, crossing the border from Turkey, a monitor said.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman said the peshmerga crossed the border with their heavy weaponry from Tal al-Shair, west of the town.
An AFP correspondent on Turkey's side of the border said earlier they left a Turkish military warehouse after a three-day wait to head for Kobane and reinforce Syrian Kurds battling the IS.
Some 150 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters joined the battle against Islamic State (IS) jihadists in the Syrian town of Kobane on Friday, crossing the border from Turkey, a monitor said.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman said the peshmerga crossed the border with their heavy weaponry from Tal al-Shair, west of the town.
An AFP correspondent on Turkey’s side of the border said earlier they left a Turkish military warehouse after a three-day wait to head for Kobane and reinforce Syrian Kurds battling the IS.
