Iraqi Kurdistan parliament votes to send forces to Kobani

ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - 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. (Reporting by Isabel Coles; Editing by Alison Williams) Read More http://ift.tt/1ykCQ7x