WORLD_ Iraq Kurd fighters head for Syria

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Iraq Kurd fighters head for Syria
Wednesday 29 Oct 2014 8:23 a.m.



Kurdish peshmerga fighters prepare to leave their base in northern Iraq (Reuters)

Dozens of Kurdish peshmerga fighters have left a base in northern Iraq headed for the battleground Syrian town of Kobane.

The Turkish border town has become a crucial front in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group, which overran large parts of Iraq in June and also holds significant territory in Syria.

An AFP journalist saw dozens of military trucks leaving the base northeast of Kurdish regional capital Arbil from which officers said fighters bound for Kobane would depart.

Earlier, the fighters loaded machine guns and mortars into the trucks and packed bags for the trip.

"Forty vehicles carrying machine guns and weapons and artillery with 80 of the peshmerga forces will head to Dohuk (province) and then cross the border today," a Kurdish officer told AFP.

A further 72 will fly to Turkey early on Wednesday, the officer said.

Halgord Hekmat, the spokesman of the Kurdish ministry responsible for the peshmerga, has said the fighters are "support forces" and will be armed with automatic weapons, mortars and rocket launchers.

The deployment is open-ended, with peshmerga minister Mustafa Qader saying that: "They will remain there until they are no longer needed."

Last week, under heavy US pressure, Turkey unexpectedly announced it would allow the peshmerga fighters to cross its territory to join the fight for Kobane.

The deployment, which comes at a time when Kurdish forces are still engaged in heavy fighting against IS militants in Iraq, stretches the bounds of regional autonomy and has drawn flak from some federal politicians.

But the Iraqi premier and other senior federal officials have been publicly silent on the issue, indicating their, at least tacit, acceptance of the deployment.

AFP

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