Ukraine in Arabic | Kurds of Kobani to collaborate with Peshmergas
KYIV/Ukraine in Arabic/ The peshmerga fighters from Iraq's autonomous Kurdish north sent to fight in Syria will cooperate closely with Kurdish groups there, a Kurdistan official said Thursday.
Peshmerga, a term used to refer to armed Kurdish fighters in Iraq, are to be sent via Turkey to the Syrian border town of Kobani to fight militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacking the town.
"We will have the command of all Peshmerga fighters," the secretary general of the ministry of peshmerga affairs of the Kurdish regional government in Iraq, Cabbar Yaver, told.
Besides, Free Syrian Army will send troops to Kobani to fight alongside the Kurdish forces there, the group said.
The group, the main opposition armed group battling Syrian President Bashar al Assad, will send troops to the town to aid in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, according to a written statement by the group's operating unit in Aleppo.
The troops will be under the command of Colonel Abdul-Jabbar al-Aqidi. Details of the operations were not made public.
In the statement, the group called on international coalition forces and other armed groups in the region for assistance and cooperation in combating ISIL.
The battle for the control of Kobani has been raging since mid-September when ISIL entered the town. An estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, including some 190,000 from Kobani, are being sheltered in camps across Turkey.
