Kurdish Peshmerga Forces Cross Into Syria's Besieged Kobani

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces crossed from Turkey into Syria's besieged Kobani on Friday to help push back Islamic State insurgents encircling the mainly Kurdish town, a peshmerga fighter in the group told Reuters by telephone.

The peshmerga forces earlier set off in more than a dozen trucks and Jeeps, escorted by armored vehicles, from a holding point around 5 miles from the border toward Kobani, which has been besieged for more than 40 days.