Iraq Kurd fighters leave base for Syria deployment

Tuesday, 28 October, 2014 , 12:10

ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 28, 2014 (AFP) — More than 150 Kurdish peshmerga fighters left a base in northern Iraq on Tuesday headed for the battleground Syrian town of Kobane, an AFP journalist reported.

Eighty fighters were to make the journey from the base northeast of Kurdish regional capital Arbil overland through Turkey, an officer told AFP.

The other 72 were to fly to Turkey for the deployment to the Syrian border town, the officer said.