ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - The Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga ministry on Sunday strongly condemned a drone strike perpetrated by “outlawed terrorist groups” on a Peshmerga base in Chamchamal overnight, calling on Baghdad to put an end to repeated attacks by pro-Iran factions operating within the country.

“These terrorist attacks against Peshmerga bases come at a time when the overall situation in the region is at a sensitive and complex juncture,” the ministry said in a statement, without detailing any casualties or material damage inflicte on the site in Sulaimani province.

“Once again, we call on the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces [Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani] to put an end to these unjustifiable violations being carried out against Peshmerga headquarters,” it added.

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.

In a presser on Tuesday, Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani stated that the Iraqi government is “responsible” for stopping the proliferation of attacks with the rationale that some of the factions “get their salaries from the federal government and are armed and funded” by Baghdad.

The premier's comments reference certain elements of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an amalgam of militia groups officially operating under the auspices of the Iraqi state, that have been responsible for attacks on the Kurdistan Region.

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.

Attacks have mostly been claimed by groups within the pro-Iran Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI).

Israeli-US strikes have repeatedly targeted PMF positions in Iraq, killing high-profile members of pro-Iran factions such as Kataib Hezbollah security chief Abu Ali al-Askari.

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.