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More than 200 Iraqi peshmerga and Free Syrian Army soldiers carrying heavy weapons head for the town to join battle
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About 50 men from Free Syrian Army cross border as Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga troops travel towards town
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US-led forces strike Islamic State (Isis) targets in the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday
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Dozens of fighters leave Irbil after Ankara finally agrees to help peshmerga from Iraq cross into Syria to fight Isis militants
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US and European and Middle East allies launch 17 air strikes in Syria and Iraq as Kurdish forces report gains against jihadists
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Coalition air strikes enable Kurds to recapture Zumar, while Iraqi army and Shia militias take strategic ground near Baghdad
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Turkey's passive-aggressive inaction in Kobani is anti-Kurd, anti-peace politics. And it's dangerous