The Militia Digest

Parliamentary Security and Defence Committee member Khalid Sido said on Monday that consideration of a weapons-control bill raised by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi had been paused for now, speaking on Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official). At Monday’s MERI Forum in Erbil, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani called for state control of weapons and air defences for Baghdad and Erbil. He also rejected Iraq becoming a platform for threats against Kuwait, Jordan, the UAE or Saudi Arabia. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan head Bafel Jalal Talabani said resolving faction weapons depended on cooperation with Iran. Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) separately alleged that US-supported Israeli aircraft were violating Iraqi airspace.

Sido also said the cabinet had not formally submitted the PMF bill. He said structure and service-and-retirement provisions had been combined into one law. He said the combined law should include compulsory retirement at 60. Al-Ahad reported that AAH’s Sadiqoun bloc was insisting on passage in upcoming sessions. Al-Nujaba presented the stalled legislation as personnel’s rights awaiting a law. On that channel, Sido said all MPs would work to pass it to guarantee personnel’s rights and entitlements. On Tuesday, Alsumaria reported water hoses being used to disperse wounded PMF personnel protesting at a Green Zone gate.

National Tribal Current political-body head Abd al-Rahman al-Jazairi claimed on Al-Ahad that political forces agreed with al-Zaidi on raising the dollar exchange rate, following the cabinet’s . Parliamentary Finance Committee member Yusuf al-Kilabi, on Al-Kornet al-Kata’ibi (KSS — affiliated), . He also . Aras Habib, a guest on Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated), . iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) reported . On Tuesday, Central Bank statistics and research director-general Samir Fakhri Nima .