Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq set out towards the Syrian town of Kabani to help Kurdish militants fight against the advancing Islamic State militants on Tuesday, reports Reuters.
A senior official in the Kurdistan Democratic Union Party (PYD) said that Peshmerga combatants were flying from Erbil airport in northern Iraq to Turkey, where they would travel on land to Kobane.
A US envoy tasked with building a coalition against Islamic State militants, Brett McGurk, welcoming the development, tweeted,
“We welcome the deployment of Peshmerga fighters and weapons from the Kurdistan Region to Kobane, which began this evening.”
The US and allied forces carried out 13 air attacks on Islamic state militants laying siege to the city of Kobane.
The Peshmerga, known for their devout commitment to the Kurdish nationalist cause and regarded as well-trained, well-armed and capable, are the Iraqi kurdish military force of the Kurdish struggle for self-determination. The term Peshmerga translates to ‘those who follow death.’
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