The Daily Digest

Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) said Prime Minister Ali Falih al-Zaidi gave three hours' warning of the strike on Popular Mobilization Forces headquarters to PMF Commission chairman Falih al-Fayyad and Coordination Framework leaders, and that the units at the Basra sites were never told — an accusation aimed at the leadership of the institution AAH sits inside, over a strike the channel's own programming attributes to the United States and Saudi Arabia. A spokesman for Muqtada al-Sadr made the same charge, saying the PMF leadership failed to notify its bases and calling for an internal probe; no names of those who withheld the alert have been identified, and the militia digest beside this one has the channel-level detail. The blame fight runs into a weapons file Washington and Tehran both touched within a day: Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani's Baghdad talks with Iraqi leaders covered faction weapons and Hormuz, and the United States then backed the Iraqi disarmament push after that intervention. An adviser to the prime minister said Iraq must not be an arena for external conflicts.

Still on the security file, three PMF members were killed in a shooting at a base in Saladin, and Iraqi authorities suspect a drone attack destroyed a tank ammunition stockpile in what Asharq al-Awsat describes as a 'silent battle' with the militias, with no attribution given for the drone.

On the economy, a parliamentary committee put Iraq's reserves at 109 trillion dinars, enough to cover salaries for about ten months after a closed briefing, a clock on the $150 billion Hormuz shutdown cost officials disclosed a day earlier. US crude imports from Iraq fell to zero on EIA figures, auto sales dropped 28.6% in the first half, and non-oil weakness clouds the outlook despite 10% money growth.

Against that ten-month limit, a proposal to pay 100% of salary during leave has raised fresh fiscal concerns, while the parallel rate in Baghdad's al-Kifah market reached 153,250 dinars per 100 dollars, a half-percent rise on the previous observation by the desk's measure.

Also on the security file, Turkey's Kurdish region met the conditional PKK pardon with relief, joy and doubt that Ankara's parliament passed the previous evening — a limited amnesty for fighters whose bases sit in Iraq's northern mountains. Jordan separately hosted Iraq, Syria and the Kurdistan Region for talks on border security.

In the north, MPs called on Baghdad to address Kurdistan's gasoline crisis as the Kurdistan Regional Government argued that equalising oil costs with the rest of Iraq could cut petrol to 450 dinars. Al Jazeera reports the Region suffering as the US-Iran war drags on, and a Kirkuk official invoked the constitution against a freeze of the provincial council.

On the domestic front, a lawmaker blamed corruption for the blockage of Iraqi tanker exports, tying the export crisis to the graft file al-Zaidi says Iraq will continue to root out. Shafaq reports the Coordination Framework weakening with no rival ready to replace it, an assessment of the bloc whose leaders Al-Ahad TV now accuses of sitting on the strike warning.

THINGS TO WATCH

Baghdad names a Hormuz reopening date or a specific salary-funding measuremedium likelihoodhigh impactA parliamentary committee put reserves at 109 trillion dinars covering roughly ten months of salaries while officials price the shutdown at $150 billion, a dated limit the finance authorities will have to speak to.

The federal government responds to Erbil's drone and missile damage compensation reportmedium likelihoodmedium impactA KRG minister says the damage report has been submitted to Baghdad seeking compensation, so a federal acceptance, rejection or figure is the next observable step.

Baghdad issues a fuel measure for Kurdistan or rejects the KRG's 450-dinar petrol claimmedium likelihoodmedium impactMPs have formally pressed the federal government over the Region's gasoline crisis while the KRG has attached a specific price figure to cost equalisation.

First PKK fighters based in Iraq's northern mountains move under Turkey's amnestylow likelihoodhigh impactAnkara's parliament passed a limited amnesty for PKK militants whose bases sit in Iraqi territory, so any surrender or withdrawal there would be visible on the Iraqi side.

An Iraqi attribution for the drone strike on the tank ammunition stockpilelow likelihoodmedium impactAuthorities suspect a drone destroyed the stockpile in what is described as a 'silent battle' with the militias, with no party yet named.