Peshmerga troops cheered by fellow Kurds in Turkey

Thursday, October 30, 2014

SURUC, Turkey -- Iraqi peshmerga troops were cheered Wednesday by fellow Kurds in southeastern Turkey as the fighters slowly made their way toward the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani to try to break a siege there by Islamic State militants.

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