"One of our military bases near the town of al-Yarubiyah in the Hasakeh province was targeted by a missile attack," the army said in a statement.

The Iraqi official, requesting anonymity, told AFP that "an Iraqi faction fired seven Arash-4 rockets, an improved version of the Grad rocket, towards a base in the Hassakeh region".

He added that a rocket launcher platform had been found abandoned in the northern Rabia area, near the Syrian border.

This month, the Syrian army took over the Rmeilan base in Hasakeh after the withdrawal of a US-led international coalition against the Islamic State group from it.

"We have been in contact and coordination with the Iraqi side regarding the incident, and they have confirmed that the Iraqi army has begun a search operation to locate the perpetrators," the Syrian military added.

Syrian Kurdish military official Sipan Hamo, who was recently appointed as Syria's Assistant Minister of Defence for the eastern region, said they "condemn the attack targeting" Rmeilan.

"We hold the Iraqi authorities fully and directly responsible for this act, due to their failure to control their territory and prevent its use to launch attacks that threaten our security and territorial integrity," he added stating that the incident resulted in "material damage, but no casualties".

Iraq has been unwillingly drawn into the conflict started on February 28 when the US and Israel launched a massive wave of strikes on Iran.

Pro-Tehran armed groups have claimed responsibility for near-daily attacks on US interests in Iraq and across the region, while strikes have also targeted these groups.