ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The two drones that were downed on Tuesday in Sulaimani's Tasluja near the Peshmerga's Unit 70 headquarters were a “message” to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), a security official in Sulaimani told The New Region.

Two drones were shot down in Sulaimani's Tasluja neighborhood late on Tuesday night, after hovering “over the Peshmerga's Unit 70 headquarters for 20 minutes,” a source within the unit told The New Region on Tuesday.

“It appears, based on the nature of the incident, that this was simply a message directed at the PUK, and not an attempt to directly harm the forces there,” said a Sulaimani security source, who spoke to The New Region on condition of anonymity, on Wednesday.

Lieutenant Ahmed Latif, spokesperson for the PUK-affiliated unit, told The New Region that “it is suspected that the target was Unit 70.” Another source in the same unit meanwhile, noted that “it is not known who the target was or where exactly.”

The New Region understands that the drones measured 1.6 meters each, and that no flags or indicators were seen on the bodies of the objects bespeaking a responsible party due to the damage they suffered while being shot down.

The PUK bloc in the Iraqi parliament condemned on Tuesday “the criminal act,” calling on Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani to “urgently form an investigative committee to determine the source of the drone and missile launches [in Kirkuk and Sulaimani] and the party behind them.”

Several unidentified aerial objects targeted Kirkuk province late Monday. Kirkuk International Airport confirmed that three unidentified projectiles fell within the compound, lightly injuring one person. Another projectile crashed through the roof of a residential house in Uruba neighborhood without resulting in any injuries.

The Erbil-based Kurdistan Counterterrorism (CT) on Tuesday reported that an unidentified suicide drone had crashed into a camp for internally displaced Yazidis in the northern Zakho district of the Kurdistan Region, on the early hours of Tuesday morning.

No groups have claimed responsibility for any of the attacks as of the writing of this article.