ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraqi authorities on Saturday condemned an attack on the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) headquarters in Baghdad that killed one official as a “terrorist act.”

INIS on Saturday said that its headquarters in Baghdad was struck by a drone carried out by “outlaw elements,” killing at least one official, who was later revealed by the service to be Sarmad Taib Noori, an intelligence officer in INIS.

The service's headquarters is located in the upscale district west of Baghdad called Mansour, which is home to embassies, government offices, and commercial areas.

Iraq’s ruling Coordination Framework condemned the attack as a “reprehensible terrorist act aimed at undermining the prestige of the state and its security institutions.”

“The Coordination Framework reaffirms its full solidarity with the Iraqi National Intelligence Service ... and calls for not allowing any party to tamper with the country's security or target state institutions in light of the difficult circumstances the region is currently facing,” it added.

Since the beginning of the Israel-US war with Iran in late-February, pro-Iran militias in Iraq have launched - and in some cases - claimed near-daily attacks on targets in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.

Israel and the US have also targeted pro-Iran groups and PMF positions in Iraq, making it the only country that has seen attacks from both sides on its soil.

“This attack, and the previous repeated and condemned targeting of the Popular Mobilization headquarters, represent a serious violation of the pillars of Iraqi national security and its sovereign institutions,” Iraqi premier Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani's Reconstruction and Development parliamentary bloc said in a statement.

More than 60 PMF fighters have been killed and over 100 others wounded in attacks so far, according to Badr Organization Secretary-General Hadi al-Amiri on Thursday.

Iraq’s Services Alliance also called it a “terrorist attack” and said there are “ongoing attempts to destabilize the Iraqi arena continue to escalate, as evidenced by the targeting of vital civilian sites and the missions of European countries.” It also called for a probe into the attack.

Though this attack has yet to be claimed, pro-Iran militias of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) have claimed numerous attacks.

Ammar al-Hakim, head of the National Wisdom Movement (Hikma), called the drone strike on Saturday a “blatant attack on the sovereignty of the state” and “an attempt to destabilize the country's security and stability.”

Iraq has repeatedly condemned attacks carried out on its soil.