ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The latest barrage in a string of drone attacks in the Kurdistan Region saw two bomb-laden drones operating on Thursday morning in Duhok and Erbil respectively, with the former drone targeting the Tawke oil field.

According to Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism (CT), “At 10:55 am on Thursday, the DNO-operated Tawke oilfield, in the Zakho independent administration, once again came under a bomb-laden drone attack.”

The Tawke oilfield, operated by a Norwegian oil company, was previously targeted by a drone strike on Wednesday morning.

A separate Kurdistan CT statement detailed the crashing of a drone in Erbil: “At 10:50 am on Thursday, a bomb-laden drone crashed near the village of Surezha, Shamamk subdistrict, Erbil province.”

Neither incident caused any casualties or material damage, according to the respective statements.

A spate of aerial attacks by unidentified actors has targeted the Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk since late June, coming days after the declaration of a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.

On Wednesday, three oilfields operated by American and European companies came under several drone attacks, forcing them to temporarily suspend production, with a senior Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) official saying Erbil has lost nearly 200,000 barrels of oil production due to “drone attacks by criminal militias."

In light of the ongoing attacks, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on Thursday demanded that a special session of the Iraqi parliament be held to discuss the issue and that Baghdad take “decisive measures” against those behind such “terrorist attacks.”

The KDP parliamentary bloc said they demand "an emergency session of the Council of Representatives to discuss these dangerous developments and review the government's actions in this regard, to strengthen the role of the legislative authority in protecting the nation and its citizens."

The US State Department on Wednesday also condemned the recent drone attacks, saying that they "imperil Iraq’s stability and economic future."

"The Government of Iraq has a duty to protect its territory and all of its citizens. These strikes target international companies that are working with Iraq to invest in Iraq’s future,” the US statement read.

Amid ongoing Erbil-Baghdad tensions over the latter’s refusal to fund the Kurdistan Region’s public sector salaries and disputes over the handing over of the Region’s oil revenues to the federal government, the KRG has the federal authorities’ initial silence toward the strikes.

In a statement last week, the KRG accused groups affiliated with the Iraqi state-linked Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) of being behind the recent aerial attacks. Baghdad swiftly denied the allegations, saying the accusations “against an official Iraqi security institution are impermissible, condemned, and unacceptable under any pretext.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on Tuesday ordered an “immediate” investigation to identify the parties responsible for the drone attacks that struck oil fields in the Kurdistan Region.