Iraq drone attacks wound five Kurdish security personnel
Authorities blamed a "terrorist group" for the separate attacks in a region that has seen repeated clashes between Turkish forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
"A terrorist group launched two separate drone attacks yesterday (Monday) and this morning targeting peshmerga bases" in Dohuk province, the region's security council said.
The attacks wounded five peshmerga, it added.
Kamran Othman of the US-based Community Peacemakers Teams, who monitor Turkish operations in Iraqi Kurdistan, confirmed the attacks but was unable to identify the perpetrators.
He added that the peshmerga were establishing a new post in a "sensitive area" that has long been the site of tension between the PKK and Turkish forces.
There was no immediate claim for the attacks, which came weeks after the PKK announced a ceasefire with Turkey in response to their jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's historic call to the group to dissolve and disarm.
Blacklisted as a "terrorist group" by the European Union and the United States, the PKK has fought the Turkish state for most of the past four decades.
The group maintains rear bases in the mountains of northern Iraq, where Turkish forces have also long operated bases.
Despite the ceasefire, skirmishes between the foes continue in several areas of northern Iraq.
The regional security council accused the perpetrators of the attacks of trying to "obstruct the peace process and the stability of the region".
The Iraqi Kurdish authorities have close relations with Ankara.
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