ARBIL - Iraqi peshmerga fighters left on Tuesday for the beseiged Syrian town of Kobani to help fellow Kurds in their battle against Islamic State militants, a senior Kurdish official said. Hemin Hawrami, a senior official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, said in a tweet that peshmerga were on the move from Arbil airport to the Turkish border town of Silopi from where they will travel by land to Kobani.
