IRBIL: Five Iraqi Kurdish security personnel were wounded in two drone attacks in northern Iraq in less than 48 hours, authorities in the autonomous Kurdistan region said on Tuesday.

Authorities blamed a 鈥渢errorist group鈥� for the separate attacks in a region that has seen repeated clashes between Turkish forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers鈥� Party. 

鈥淎 terrorist group launched two separate drone attacks yesterday (Monday) and this morning targeting peshmerga bases鈥� in Dohuk province, the region鈥檚 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 鈥渟ensitive area鈥� 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 Turkiye in response to their jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan鈥檚 historic call to the group to dissolve and disarm.

Blacklisted as a 鈥渢errorist group鈥� by the EU and the US, the PKK has fought the Turkish state for most of the past four decades.