The Militia Digest

Qais al-Khazali (AAH — secretary-general) said on September 10 that weapons outside state institutions should come under official security-force management, while saying AAH’s arms were already confined within the PMF. He distinguished state management from surrender and rejected destroying the weapons. Any process, he said, must follow government formation and Coordination Framework approval, the departure of U.S. forces, an end to drone flights and Iraq’s acquisition of air-defence systems. Hamid al-Musawi (Badr — parliamentary bloc spokesman) separately said resistance factions did not need weapons. Ali al-Asadi (HAN— political council head) said Nujaba had agreed to regulate weapons rather than restrict them. Press reports meanwhile placed Kataib Hezbollah and Nujaba on rejecting state custody. AAH and Nujaba have now stated their different formulas directly, while KH’s position remains reported rather than stated by the faction. The September 30 date remains fixed for the coalition mission, not the weapons dialogue.

The U.S. Treasury on September 10 sanctioned nine Iraqi nationals and two Iraq-based companies as part of a wider regional action. Treasury linked four of the Iraqi designees to Kataib Hezbollah and attributed financing, money laundering and assistance with Iranian sanctions evasion to the designated networks. The Iraqi names also included Majid and Abdulhasan Ali Akbar Namdar al-Mandalawi, identified as brothers of politician Mohsen al-Mandalawi. Treasury described the action as part of Operation Economic Outcast, which it says seeks to cut financial channels supporting Iran, the IRGC and allied armed groups. Middle East Eye separately reported that Kataib Hezbollah had rejected an Iraqi government disarmament order, but quoted no faction statement.