Despite the negativity brought about by the ongoing war in the Syrian town of Kobani, a positive thing came out of it  -- the conflict was able to unite the Kurds in the fight against the Islamic State militants.

Thousands of people wearing Kurdish flags were seen Thursday lined up on the streets of Kurdish-dominated towns, cheering on a  convoy of  Peshmerga troops who were headed for Kobani.

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The troops will go to the embattled town to help fellow Kurdish fighters push back the militants who have been trying to overrun Kobani for weeks now .

Although it is still uncertain whether the Peshmerga troops, armed with state-of-the-art weaponry, will be enough to overpower the Islamic State militants, activists said that their deployment in Kobani is a move which showed unity between Kurdish troops that were almost always trying to overpower each other.

The unity shown by the Kurds is slowly strengthening as it becamemore evident that the Kurds are the most effective ally of the west when it comes to ground fighting in Syria and Iraq, according to Reuters.

However, reports said that maintaining the united front will be challenging, since  the Kurdish fighters are known for having competing leadership ambitions to rule more than 30 million of the Kurds worldwide.

The governments' of the four Kurdish countries -Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria - have been known in the past to use their countries' separation to assert their own independence.

But according to Ayyoub Sheikho, 33, who left his home in Kobani during the height of the conflict, and now lives at a tent at a refugee camp in Iraq, unity is of utmost importance at the moment, otherwise, "we will be trampled on."

In addition, Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of the Kurdistan president said the onslaught of the Islamic State militants have united the Kurds by "destroying the borders."

Hussein said that the attack on their people and on their towns have brought about a feeling of solidarity.

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