IRBIL, IRAQ: The long-expected reinforcement of Kurdish forces at the besieged Syrian town of Kobane by men and equipment from Iraq began on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), though it remains uncertain whether the effort will be enough to expel Islamic State (IS) militants.
A convoy of heavy weapons and ammunition set off on Tuesday afternoon from Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, bound to reach Kobane on an overland route that would pass through Turkey. Separately, about 150 members of the KRG’s peshmerga militia boarded an Iraqi military aircraft in Irbil to be flown to an airfield in southern Turkey, from which they would cross into Syria.
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