The Militia Digest

Kataib Hezbollah urged Yemeni fighters to continue attacks on Saudi Arabia in a statement carried overnight by Sabereen News (KH — affiliated). It demanded that Saudi Arabia lift the blockade on Yemen. The faction also declared that Iraq’s people and Islamic Resistance stood alongside Yemenis. It dismissed Iraqi condemnations of Saturday’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh as unrepresentative of Iraqis. Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority put the toll at 12 killed and 309 wounded. Baghdad had condemned the attack on Sunday and called for military operations to stop. On Monday, Sabereen and Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) paired Saudi energy-security remarks with KH security official and spokesman Abu Ali al-Askari’s warning that prosperity must be shared or everyone would face deprivation. KH’s statement endorses Yemeni attacks rather than announcing an operation of its own.

Separately, Saud al-Saadi (KH — Hoquq MP) said the bloc had filed a Federal Supreme Court challenge to Decision 544, following the cabinet’s Tuesday increase in the public dollar-selling rate to 1,520 dinars. He argued that the decision violated the constitution and burdened citizens. Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) also criticized the budgetary cost of four deputy prime ministers. Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) . Al-Maliki . Economist Abdul Rahman al-Sheikhli, speaking on Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official), . On spending cuts, Qusay Abbas (Badr — MP) .