ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Two Peshmerga bases in Erbil and Sulaimani were subjected to drone attacks that resulted in the injury of at least three fighters, the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga Ministry announced on Wednesday, calling on Baghdad to take "immediate and urgent steps" to restrict attacks by pro-Iran factions.

“Two bases belonging to units under the Ministry of Peshmerga in both Erbil and Sulaimani provinces were targeted in drone attacks, in which, regrettably, three heroic Peshmerga fighters were wounded,” read the ministry statement.

The Peshmerga ministry condemned the offensive and called on Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani to “put an end to these internal transgressions” and take “immediate and urgent steps to prevent these outlawed groups from repeating such acts, which pose a threat to the security of the region.”

The Peshmerga positions have been previously targeted in early March, when a base housing the Kurdish forces was subject to a drone attack in the vicinity of the Degala subdistrict.

No party has claimed responsibility for the attack as of the time of writing this article.

The Kurdistan Region has been repeatedly targeted since the start of the war in the Middle East, with the attacks often claimed by the pro-Iran militia groups inside Iraq.

The developments come amid an ongoing war in the Middle East after joint US-Israeli airstrikes targeted Iranian territory in late February, prompting retaliatory Iranian strikes that escalated into a war now in its third week.

In a presser on Tuesday, Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani stated that the Iraqi government is “responsible” to stop the attacks, because a part of them “get their salaries from the federal government, and are armed and funded” by Baghdad.

Pro-Iran elements of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an amalgam of milita groups officially operating under the auspices of the Iraqi state, have repeatedly targeted US military and diplomatic sites in the Kurdistan Region since the outbreak of the war.