Kurdish Peshmerga Cross Into Kobani to Battle Islamic State

Iraqi Kurdish fighters began crossing into the Syrian frontier town of Kobani from Turkey to join the fight against Islamic State militants, according to a monitoring group.

Ten Iraqi Kurdish troops, known as Peshmerga, entered Kobani and others were expected to follow in the coming hours, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the fighting in Syria, said in an e-mailed statement. The advance group will decide where to deploy the rest of the force, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said, citing Iraqi Kurdish official Osman Riseyi.