The Militia Digest

PMF military-media director Muhannad al-Aqabi said faction weapons would not be surrendered but reorganized under federal supervision to prevent disorder or abuse. He also rejected any attack on Erbil or another Iraqi province. Riyadh al-Tamimi (Sadiqoun — MP) told Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) that his bloc supported containing and regulating weapons, without addressing surrender. Iram News separately cited an Iraqi political source saying most heavy weapons, missiles and drones remained with factions, with a substantial portion possibly moving to PMF warehouses and returning to combat if the United States attacked Iran. Al-Aqabi has thus made the PMF distinction explicit: regulation without surrender, while the government committee still has no fixed deadline.

On 20 September, Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official), Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official), Al-Ahad and iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) described explosions or drone action near Erbil airport and a U.S. base. Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated), Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official) and Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) instead relayed the Kurdistan Region counterterrorism account that two blasts came from military training and security activity. Kurdistan24 cited a security source saying the explosion came from detonating explosive remnants and was not an attack. On 21 September, Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) captioned footage as an attack on U.S. bases, but the video showed smoke without establishing the site, cause or recording time.

Ahmad Adnan (AAH — Sadiqoun member) said his bloc had enough MPs to question PMF chairman Faleh al-Fayyad after his absence from parliament. He alleged that Fayyad sent delegations and intermediaries to Sadiqoun seeking to avoid the questioning. Victory Coalition spokesman Salam al-Zubaidi separately said that Fayyad’s absence was political and alleged that political forces . Adnan also called for scrutiny of reports alleging .