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| Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament Votes To Send Forces To Kobani |
| 2014-10-23 |
| [Ynet] Lawmakers in Iraq's Kurdistan region on Wednesday voted in favour of sending forces to the besieged Syrian town of Kobani via Turkey, MPs said. Kurdistan's President Masoud Barzani sent a letter to parliament late on Tuesday seeking approval to deploy the region's peshmerga forces abroad, to fight alongside Syrian Kurds. "Today in parliament we agreed to send the peshmerga forces to Kobani as soon as possible," MP Mahmoud Haji Omer said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 See HURRIYET DAILY NEWS > TWO HUNDRED IRAQI KURDISH FIGHTERS TO BE SENT TO KOBANE, denoting common agreement or rapprochement between the PYD + PKK Kurd groups. versus * SAME > WE EXPECTED PYD MILITIA TO BE SENT, NOT PESHMERGA, SAYS PYD HEAD MUSLIM. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-10-23 01:37 |