Kurdish forces have thwarted a new attempt by Isis terrorists to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane from the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy.
The pre-dawn assault marked the fourth straight day the jihadists had attacked the Syrian side of the border crossing as the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to head for Kobane, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The peshmerga forces are 'ready to go', but they are not expected to deploy to Kobane before Monday at the earliest, Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported.
Kurdish forces have thwarted a new attempt by Isis terrorists to cut off the Syrian town of Kobane. Pictured is an explosion from an air-strike by U.S-led coalition forces on Sunday
Syrian Kurdish refugees from Kobane watch fighting across the border from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, Turkey
An aircraft flies over Kobane, as seen from near the Mursitpinar crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border
Explosions in Kobane as US airstrikes continue
'Technical issues' concerning their transit through Turkey still had to be resolved, Rudaw said without elaborating.
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