The Militia Digest

Al-Monitor reported that Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s government acknowledged that the drones used in the 11 September attack on Saudi Arabia’s East–West Pipeline, which Riyadh attributed to Iraqi factions, originated in Maysan. The Washington Institute separately attributed a drone barrage on the Yanbu pipeline to PMF factions and dated it 10 September, a day earlier than the 11 September pipeline attack. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq had denied responsibility, while investigators had located launch platforms inside Iraq. Six Iraqi faction channels also relayed separate Yemeni armed forces claims against Riyadh and Aramco in Yanbu, assigning those operations to the Yemeni forces. The new government position is an origin finding; the attribution to PMF factions is the Washington Institute’s.

Iraqi legislator Mohammed al-Moussawi rejected 30 September as a weapons deadline and defended resistance weapons on counterterrorism, sovereignty and stability grounds. National State Forces Alliance head Ammar al-Hakim and Badr Organization secretary-general Hadi al-Amiri instead called for resolving weapons outside state control through dialogue. Government spokesman Haider al-Aboudi called 30 September the formal end of the coalition mission, while commander-in-chief spokesman Sabah al-Numan said that transition should remove grounds for armed activity outside state institutions. Security adviser Qasim al-Araji said the weapons committee has no fixed completion deadline. Reports on a planned New York meeting with President Donald Trump diverged between new commitments from al-Zaidi and a request for more time and delayed sanctions. Security and Defence Committee member Sherwan Doberndani said failure to bring faction weapons under state control by that date could expose Iraq to severe U.S. sanctions, although no such decision has been announced. September 30 remains .