Iraqi peshmerga Arrived in Turkey, Head to Kobane

Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey early on Wednesday ahead of their planned deployment to the Syrian town of Kobani to help fellow Kurds repel an ISIS advance which has defied U.S.-led air strikes.
A Turkish Airlines plane touched down in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa at around 1:15 a.m. local time (2315 GMT) amid tight security and turkey police and army escort, Reuters report.
"They will be in our town today," Adham Basho, a member of the Syrian Kurdish National Council from Kobani, said of the peshmerga, confirming that a group of between 90 and 100 fighters had arrived in Sanliurfa overnight.
Peshmerga forces left Turkey's Sanliurfa international airport on Wednesday morning en route to the Syrian city of Kobani, where they will assist Syrian Kurds in their battle against the ISIS terrorist group.
A convoy of Iraqi Kurdish fighters and weaponry drove through the mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Cizre. Crowds waving flags cheered them on as they drove toward the Syrian border.
The convoy are expected to travel to Kobani through the Mursitpinar border crossing.Weeks of U.S.-led air strikes on the insurgents' positions around Kobani and the deaths of hundreds of their fighters have failed to break the siege on the town.
The ISIS has threatened to massacre Kobani's defenders in an assault which has sent almost 200,000 Syrian Kurds fleeing to Turkey, and triggered a call to arms from Kurds across the region.