(VOVworld) – Iraqi Kurdish troops have traveled to south east Turkey to fight the Islamic State in Syria, according to Turkey's state-run Anatolia news agency. A private plane carrying Kurdish militants flew from the Kurdish capital of Erbil to an airport in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. The forces will cross into Syria later to help fight IS militants in the embattled town of Kobane. Salih Muslim, co-leader of Syria’s Democratic Union Party, said the Kurdish fighters will bring anti-tank and anti-armor weapons with them to Kobane.

A convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters drive through Arbil after leaving a base in northern Iraq, on their way to the Syrian town of Kobane, October 28. (Photo: Reuters)

On Wednesday, Islamic State militants in Syria killed 30 Syrian fighters in an assault near the al-Shaer gas field in the central province of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Iraqi authorities reported the same day that IS militants in Anbar province executed 46 members of the Albu Nimr tribe seized last week by the IS in Hit, a town 140 km west of Baghdad.