ERBIL, Iraq
Iraq's regional Kurdish government will soon send replacements for the peshmerga troops who currently fight alongside Kurdish groups battling militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Syrian town of Kobani, a Kurdish official said Sunday.
"Our Peshmerga fighters in Kobani are tired. We will send new troops into the region,” said Cabbar Yaver, the secretary general of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq.
Around 150 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters passed through Turkey into the Syrian town of Kobani to aid in the fight against ISIL on October 28.
Yaver did not elaborate on ho many replacements would be sent or when they would be deployed.
A Peshmerga commander, Abdul Qahhar Majid, who serves in Kobani confirmed to The Anadolu Agency that the new fighters would arrive soon and the existing ones would return to northern Iraq.
On Sunday, the U.S.-led coalition air forces continued to target ISIL positions near Kobani -- also known as Ayn al Arab.
The Iraqi army and peshmerga have been battling the ISIL in Iraq since mid-June, when the terrorist group took control of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq. The militant group controls large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
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