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Heavily armed Kurdish peshmerga fighters were on their way to joining militias defending the Syrian border town of Kobane from the Islamic State group after setting off from Iraq Tuesday. Military ...

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 ...

Kurdish peshmerga fighters wave a Kurdish flag from a military vehicle armed with a heavy infantry weapons as they ride towards the Syrian town of Kobane from the border town of Suruc, Turkey, October ...

They were greeted by thousands of Turkish Kurds who were barred from entering Syria to fight. Ankara fears the strengthening of the PKK and the creation of a Kurdish state. Some areas of the province ...

ERBIL, Iraq, Oct. 29 (UPI) --Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government announced Tuesday that Peshmerga fighters have been deployed to help Syria's Kurdish militias defend the town of Kobane from Islamic ...

KOBANE, Syria, Oct. 31 (UPI) --The first deployment of Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga officers crossed into Syria from Turkey on Thursday to help defend the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane from ...

Iraqi peshmerga fighters prepared Saturday to join the fight against jihadists for the Syrian border town of Kobane, lifting hopes among residents of a turning point in the highly symbolic battle. The ...

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Beirut (Alliance News) - The first group of Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga troops entered the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane on Thursday for a short reconnaissance visit before returning to Turkish ...