Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN) -- Kurdish fighters from Iraq will enter the besieged Syrian border city Kobani 'today or tomorrow' to reinforce militia there defending against ISIS, a Peshmerga general told CNN on Tuesday.
'The Peshmerga have been ready for a few days, then had logistical problems, but they no longer do,' Brig. Gen. Halgurd Hikmat said. 'They will possibly be leaving today or tomorrow.'
He added that 'we now have an agreement with Turkey on this.'
Turkish officials were not immediately available to comment.
Hikmat would not confirm how the Kurdish fighters from Iraq would join the Kurdish defenders in Kobani, but said they would bring weapons and would participate in the fighting.
The weapons would be Saddam Hussein-era gear collected in Iraq, not new coalition armaments, Hikmat added.
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