Fighting raged in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Saturday after ISIL terrorists launched a new assault on Kurdish fighters bolstered by the arrival of heavily armed Iraqi peshmerga forces.

Fighting raged in the Syrian border town of Kobani on Saturday after ISIL terrorists launched a new assault on Kurdish fighters bolstered by the arrival of heavily armed Iraqi peshmerga forces.

The roughly 150 Iraqi fighters, many of them chanting "Kobani", received a hero's welcome as they crossed the border from Turkey late Friday to join fellow Kurds trying to repel the ISIL group.

Fierce clashes in and around KobanI have killed about 100 IS fighters in the past three days, according to media reports