Kurdish peshmerga arrive with weapons in Syria's Kobani

MURSITPINAR Turkey/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces arrived in the Syrian town of Kobani with heavy weapons to help Syrian Kurds fend off attempts by Islamic State insurgents to seize the town and cement control in the Turkish border region.

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