The Daily Digest
Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada reportedly made weapons regulation conditional on ten demands on August 29. Reports identified the withdrawal of US and Turkish forces among the terms; the companion Militia Digest carries the full reported list and the faction’s assertion that its weapons could return when necessary. Hadi al-Amiri (Badr Organization — secretary-general) subsequently called weapons policy a domestic decision and ruled out a government-faction clash.
On the economy, the prime minister ordered faster work on strategic oil pipelines, while a Kurdistan Region minister said regional production had returned to normal. The Kurdistan Regional Government demanded an end to what it called discriminatory federal crude pricing, and reported Iraqi crude exports to the United States fell back to zero after one week.
On the domestic front, Iraqi authorities sentenced a former lawmaker and a former oil official to seven years, and the prime minister directed that corruption whistleblowers be rewarded. Authorities separately closed 158 unlicensed private institutes.