The Daily Digest

The Federal Commission of Integrity said it issued 191 arrest warrants in August, including 27 arrest warrants and judicial summons involving high-ranking officials. It also said 78 suspects were caught in the act. The figures come amid a crackdown that started with a late-June raid in Baghdad’s Green Zone that led to the arrests of several senior officials. In August, the commission also announced a seven-year prison sentence for a senior Oil Ministry official over illicit enrichment of around $16.56 million. By late July, Baghdad had seized more than $125 million and 380 kilograms of gold and jewellery in the case involving detained Oil Ministry undersecretary Adnan al-Jumaili.

Parliament’s Security and Defense Committee said the PMF bill would reach parliament within 72 hours, although no parliamentary session or bill provisions were announced. That legislative timetable remains separate from negotiations over faction weapons. Alsumaria reported that Kataib Hezbollah and Nujaba told the government weapons committee they rejected an unspecified government deadline. It separately described Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada and Nujaba as holding to “no commitment and no surrender”, without producing full statements or naming speakers. Al-Akhbar said the Coordination Framework committee had failed and that “the resistance” would accept no deadlines. By contrast, Iraqi Media Development Center president Adnan al-Saraj told Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) that . Abu Alaa al-Walai (KSS — secretary-general) conditioned weapons regulation on .