The Daily Digest

Officials said the US-led coalition's withdrawal from Iraq is on track to complete by Sept. 30, and Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi told Washington that Iraq is free of foreign forces from October 1, Kurdistan24 reporting Baghdad's case that the pullout is irreversible. Al-Zaidi, whose order for a draft law confining weapons to the state the desk reported this morning, said disarmament should be paired with an end to foreign air strikes. Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said Iran has offered to help Iraq bring the armed groups under state control, and a source told Al Jazeera that Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani's Baghdad visit was to discuss the disarmament plan.

Still on the security file, a senior Iraqi security delegation flew to Saudi Arabia over the drone attacks, Shafaq News reported, a mission Iraqi News separately confirmed was headed by senior officials. Baghdad has still announced no date for the prime minister's rescheduled Riyadh visit, and the Nineveh police chief was arrested in a $15,000 bribery case.

On the economy, SOMO said Baghdad, Erbil and the oil companies have renewed the tripartite agreement governing Kurdish crude, and the Oil Ministry denied it was blocking crude exports through Hormuz, a block a lawmaker had tied to corruption. A Central Bank lending initiative has channelled $1.69 billion to large projects, Shafaq News reported, while an economist said the reserves lawmakers have counted as ten months of salaries are not a salary fund and the dollar moved above 153,000 IQD in Baghdad and Erbil.

In the militia space, Unit 10,000 and Sabereen News (both KH — affiliated) ran the same denunciation within eleven minutes against Khalid Abd al-Mun'im Rashid al-Janabi over his description of the security forces' liberation of Jurf al-Nasr from ISIS as an "occupation", cataloguing his Saddam-era posts and his brother's Baath National Assembly seat. No other tracked faction's channels engaged al-Janabi or the Jurf al-Nasr criticism in the collected material; the militia digest beside this one has the channel-level detail.

THINGS TO WATCH

The weapons-control bill arrives at the cabinet or parliament as a textmedium likelihoodhigh impactAl-Zaidi ordered a draft law placing weapons under state control, and the next observable step is a text approved by the cabinet or read in parliament.

A handover date or ceremony is announced for the coalition's Sept. 30 completionmedium likelihoodhigh impactOfficials said the withdrawal is on track for Sept. 30 and al-Zaidi told Washington Iraq is free of foreign forces from October 1, so a dated handover — or a slip in that date — should surface.

Iraq and Saudi Arabia announce an outcome from the Riyadh security visitmedium likelihoodmedium impactIraqi security chiefs flew to Saudi Arabia over the drone attacks, and a joint statement, a mechanism or a date for the prime minister's rescheduled visit would show what the trip produced.

Parliament takes up the 2026–2029 government program referred by the cabinetmedium likelihoodmedium impactThe cabinet approved the 14-sector program and referred it to parliament, so a first reading or a vote is the observable next move.

A KRG crude or petrol volume is fixed under the renewed tripartite agreementlow likelihoodmedium impactSOMO announced the renewal the same week a KDP MP asked Baghdad for 140,000 barrels a day for the Region, so a stated allocation would settle whether the renewal resolved the demand.