A nighttime convoy of buses carried dozens of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on Tuesday (December 2) through Sanliurfa, Turkey to the Syrian border.<br/> <br />They were being deployed to the Syrian town of Kobani to battle Islamic State militants.<br/> <br />The troops had arrived earlier at the airport in Sanliurfa from northern Iraq.<br/> <br />They'll replace another Peshmerga unit that has been in Kobani since October 29.<br/> <br />The fresh troops were escorted by police as they were driven to the border.<br/> <br />The Anatolian news agency reported they had crossed into Kobani late at night.<br/> <br />Kurdish militia have been holding off Islamic State fighters for more than two months in Kobani, known as Ayn al-Arab in Arabic.
