By Humeyra Pamuk and Raheem Salman SURUC Turkey/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S.-led air strikes hit Islamic State positions around the Syrian border town of Kobani on Friday in an apparent bid to pave the way for heavily-armed Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces to enter from neighboring Turkey. The predominantly Kurdish town, besieged for more than 40 days, has become the focus of a global war against the Sunni Muslim insurgents, who have captured expanses of Iraq and Syria and declared an Islamic "caliphate" straddling the two. …

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/air-strikes-hit-kobani-kurdish-peshmerga-prepare-enter-121144154.html

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