The parliament of Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan agreed Wednesday to send Peshmerga regional security forces to the besieged town of Kobane in Syria via Turkey, media reported.
"The parliament of Kurdistan region agreed to send a force from the Peshmerga with its heavy weapons to the Kurdish town of Kobane in Syria as soon as possible," Xinhua reported quoting the state-run Iraqiya channel.
The parliament decision came after receiving a letter from the regional Kurdish President Masoud Barzani late Tuesday seeking approval to send regional forces abroad to support Kurdish fighters fighting the extremist Islamic State (IS) militants in Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arab, according to Kurdish media reports.
The vote came after Turkey said earlier it has offered northern Iraqi Peshmerga fighters passage into the besieged Syrian town of Kobane to help Syrian Kurdish fighters combat the IS militants.