30/10/2014 18:02
Iraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria to fight ISIS
A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani Thursday to help push back ISIS militants who have defied U.S. airstrikes and threatened to massacre its Kurdish defenders, Reuters reported.
A first contingent of about 10 peshmerga fighters crossed into Kobani from Turkey, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Kurdish and Turkish officials said a larger deployment was expected within hours.
"That initial group, I was told, is here to carry out the planning for our strategy going forward," said Meryem Kobane, a commander with the YPG, the main Syrian Kurdish armed group defending the town.
"They need to make preparations so the peshmerga will be positioned according to our needs," she told Reuters.