Air strikes hit Kobani as Kurdish peshmerga prepare to enter

A Turkish policeman stands guard outside the gate of a camp that hosts Peshmerga fighters in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, October 30, 2014.

BY HUMEYRA PAMUK AND RAHEEM SALMAN-Fri Oct 31, 2014

(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 neighbouring Turkey.

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