Peshmerga at Turkish border to reinforce besieged Kobane Iraqi Peshmerga fighters were waiting on Friday at the Turkish Syrian border to enter Kobane and support the Kurdish forces in this city. Kobane has become an important symbol of the battle against IS, an extremist Sunni Muslim group that has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq, committing atrocities and declaring an Islamic "caliphate". IMAGES / REFILE with "warehouse" instead of "barracks" in the shotlist