The Guardian reports: Dozens of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been held up in Turkey en route to the Syrian border town of Kobani, where they will join the fight against Islamic State (Isis) militants.

The peshmerga command have not commented on the delay, but Turkish media cited an attack by Isis on Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters crossing into Kobani through the Mürsitpinar border gate as a reason for the delay. According to the newspaper Milliyet, three FSA members were wounded by Isis snipers on Wednesday. They are being treated at a Turkish hospital.

I just spoke to #YPG Spokesman Polat Can who accuses Turkey for deliberately delaying #Peshmerga deployment to #Kobane @polatcano #Kobani

— Mutlu Civiroglu (@mutludc) October 31, 2014