THE MILITIA DESK
34 WATCHED CHANNELS · HOURLY · MEASUREMENT BEFORE NARRATIVEATTACKS CLAIMED · THE RECORD
0SINCE 2026-05-27
no Iraqi faction claim verified by this desk · 67 collected days
- Counts
- an Iraqi faction saying it carried out an operation
- Does not
- Iranian, Houthi or Lebanese Hezbollah claims relayed here
- Does not
- a report that an attack happened — a claim and an attack are two things
counting suspended 1 August after the classifier was measured · why, and what it showed →
THE TEMPO · VS OWN 8-WEEK PACE2.9× USUAL
0 threats · 0 calls to escalate in the last 24h
Iraqi first-party voice only · 0 in somebody else’s voice, not counted· the counted messages →
FOCUS WATCH · WHAT THE NETWORK SURGES ON
Popular Mobilization Forces15/34
6 factions
United States14/34
5 factions
Strait of Hormuz13/34
5 factions
measured hourly against each subject’s own history · faction by faction, at home and abroad →
CHANNEL PULSE · LIT BY LAST POST
hover any cell — channel, affiliation, last post · brightest posted within the hour, darkest 3+ days ago
THE ALIGNMENT BOARD · VS THE IRGC LINE · WITH DRIFT
| Actor | Posture | Iran vector | Cohesion | Drift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAH | · | localizing | · | holding |
| Badr Organization | · | echoing | · | holding |
| Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina | · | echoing | · | holding |
| Islamic Resistance in Iraq | silent | echoing | silent | holding |
| KH | · | echoing | · | holding |
| KSS | · | echoing | · | holding |
echoing carries Tehran’s line as-islocalizing takes the theme, bends it to an Iraqi agendadiverging departs from the lineindependent runs its own linesilent said nothing while peers spoke
DRIFT reads the weekly photographs — 2 weeks recorded; a trail shows only where an actor actually moved
Signals archive
100+ SIGNALSTUESDAY, 4 AUGUST 20266 SIGNALS
KSS and Nujaba channels carry "prepare for a major battle" quotesKSS-affiliated iNEWS and Nujaba's official Al-Nujaba TV carried, within seventeen minutes on 4 August, breaking-news graphics quoting a speaker identified only as "Sheikh Qasim" calling to "prepare for a major battle" and to confront those who implement the Israeli project11:19credible evidence2 channels · 2 networksKSS · NujabaAl-Janoub TV reports PMF tightening vehicle screening in KarbalaAssessed: Al-Janoub TV (Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official owned media) reported that the Popular Mobilization Forces have reinforced vehicle inspection and screening procedures in Karbala, publishing checkpoint footage with no unit named and no stated threat04:54credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina · PMFAAH channel airs claim factions deferred Saudi response past ArbaeenAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) carried Mahdi Khazaal saying factions postponed a response to Saudi Arabia until after the Arbaeen visitation and that leniency toward Saudi aggression would open the door to further attacks02:44preponderance1 channel · 1 networkAAHAAH channel runs back-to-back items against printing moneyAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) ran two consecutive items rejecting currency printing and exchange-rate change as unlawful and as a cost transferred to citizens02:44credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHAAH channel casts weapons-confinement drive as a US test of al-ZaidiAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) carried Falah al-Dhahabi describing the weapons-confinement process as very complicated and saying America wants to test al-Zaidi's strength02:44credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHAl-Ahad TV airs MP calling Iraq an economically "fragile state"Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official) aired Finance Committee member Riyad al-Tamimi calling Iraq economically a "fragile state" whose weaknesses the regional war exposed01:41credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHMONDAY, 3 AUGUST 202624 SIGNALS
AAH broadcaster stacks two guests against exchange-rate changeAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) aired two consecutive segments on 3 August in which economic adviser Safwan Qusay and finance committee member Riyad al-Tamimi both rejected exchange-rate change and currency printing and called the government's revenue legislation inadequate23:51credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHKhazali hands the Iraqi state a five-part Sinjar demand listQais al-Khazali's media office issued a Sinjar anniversary statement demanding the Iraqi state resolve the administrative vacuum in place since 2017, rebuild Yazidi homes, compensate victims and return more than 120,000 displaced people, relayed within minutes by Al-Ahad TV and the Asaib Ahl al-Haq channel23:03credible evidence3 channels · 1 networkAAHTwo Iraqi channels split Rezaei's Kuwait and Erbil claimsStatements attributed to Rezaei claiming American sites in Kuwait were turned to rubble and forces evacuated from Erbil were carried by iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) and, in a capability-focused form, by Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official), with no Iraqi group claiming the attacks23:03preponderance2 channels · 2 networksKSS · Badr OrganizationAssessed: Al-Hamidawi refuses disarmament, pledges bigger arsenal, press reports sayAssessed: Press reports attribute to Kataib Hezbollah secretary-general Ahmad al-Hamidawi a refusal to dismantle the resistance's weapons and a pledge to "develop it and enlarge its arsenal"22:02preponderance3 channels · 1 networkKHAAH's Al-Ahad TV pounds Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in five postsAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) ran five consecutive items in thirteen minutes relaying Salam Adel's charge that Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein is failing his duties and that the Foreign Ministry file is a "ticking time bomb" that will explode in the government's body22:02credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHHamidawi line spreads from KH channel to Badr channel with added wordingStatements attributed to Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi, carried first by Sabereen News (KH — affiliated) and within the hour by Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated), call for holding the resistance weapon, developing it and enlarging its arsenal, with the Badr-side version adding a call to "cleanse our security space"21:00credible evidence2 channels · 2 networksKH · Badr OrganizationAssessed: Kata'ib Hezbollah vows to enlarge its arsenal, promises multiplied costsA statement issued in the name of Kata'ib Hezbollah secretary-general Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi rejects relinquishing the resistance's weapons, commits to "developing them and enlarging the arsenal" and to tighter secrecy, and says the American-Saudi enemy will pay "multiplied" costs for a crime that may found a new regional phase20:14credible evidence4 channels · 1 networkKHAl-Ahad TV blames Iraq's Foreign Ministry as KH blames WashingtonAAH's Al-Ahad TV turns the alleged Saudi-American attack on Iraq into an attack on the Foreign Ministry, asking "where is the Foreign Ministry?" while KH's statement directs the same event outward at Washington and Riyadh20:14preponderance1 channel · 1 networkAAH · KHKH's Diyala office says Baghdad's window to answer Riyadh is shortAl-Ittijah TV (KH — official owned media) reported the Kataib Hezbollah representation in Diyala saying the Iraqi government's period for responding to "the Saudi aggression" "will not be long"18:28credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKHBadr media mourns 24th Brigade dead, carries IRGC condolence messageBadr's Al-Ghadeer TV carried a Diyala commemoration for 24th Brigade personnel with calls for a firm government position on "the aggression", and forty minutes later a message from the IRGC Supreme Leader's representative on the martyrdom of PMF fighters in Iraq16:33preponderance1 channel · 1 networkBadr Organization · PMFAAH channel airs Kildani blaming political deals for stalled Sinjar postsAl-Ahad TV carried Babylon Movement leader Rayan al-Kildani saying political courtesies and calculations have so far prevented the Sinjar district administrator and the Sinuni subdistrict director from taking up their posts16:33credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHAAH channel carries call to put al-Kadhimi on trialAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) carried Mashreq al-Furaiji, named as a leader in the Construction and Development Coalition, demanding that former prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi be tried, with the hashtag "Try al-Kadhimi" and text saying files linked to his government deserve renewed audit and investigation14:36credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina channel airs "ink on paper" line on US pactAl-Janoub TV, Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina's official channel, aired Wisam Aziz calling the U.S. security agreement "ink on paper" that Washington has not implemented since 200812:40credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkHarakat al-Jihad wal-BinaKH channel calls weapons handover an American projectAl-Ittijah TV, KH's official owned media, quoted al-Sindi saying the handover of resistance weapons is an American project extending from Gaza through Lebanon and Iraq to Iran10:35credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKHAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) broadcast Hisham al-Husseini saying any party that responds to what he called Saudi aggression and embarrasses the government must be dealt with as outside the law, and that the state alone holds the right to respond04:58credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHSabereen News tells factions not to give up their weaponsSabereen News (KH — affiliated) posted "from Jurf al-Nasr to the Republic of Ali… do not leave the weapons" with video captioned as visitors' words urging factions not to surrender their weapons04:58credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKHAl-Ahad TV stacks salary-crisis segments rejecting new borrowingAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) ran four posts in roughly half an hour saying the Central Bank cannot fund salaries after month ten, that Iraq cannot borrow again from the World Bank, and that compulsory saving is on the table, while naming Adnan al-Jumaili over billions04:04credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHAAH channel links commander-in-chief office reshuffle to weapons talksAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) reported that Hayder al-Aboudi tied the reshaping of the commander-in-chief's office to continuing dialogue with parties reluctant to hand over their weapons, without naming them02:44credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHKSS-aligned iNEWS puts dinar printing into salary-crisis coverageiNEWS (KSS — affiliated) reported that Iraq's salary crisis is worsening and that printing the dinar has entered the range of proposed solutions02:44credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKSSJihad wal-Bina channel: arm the army first, then discuss weapons controlHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina's official channel relayed MP Jawad Rahim al-Saadi calling the Wednesday-dawn attack on PMF headquarters a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and sequencing modern weapons for the army before any discussion of confining arms to the state01:42credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkHarakat al-Jihad wal-Bina · PMFAAH channel airs spokesperson: state not poor, building routes around HormuzAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) carried government spokesperson Haider al-Aboudi saying the Iraqi state is not poor and is establishing alternative routes to the Strait of Hormuz01:42credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHBadr-aligned Watan TV carries Abadi's bar on armed factions in electionsWatan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) twice carried Haider al-Abadi saying no armed faction may contest elections and that use of state agencies turns democracy into populism00:42preponderance1 channel · 1 networkBadr OrganizationThree factions press the salary crisis; AAH's guests contradict each otherAAH's own Al-Ahad TV broadcast two guests giving incompatible salary timelines within a minute, while iNEWS and Al-Ittijah TV pressed the same liquidity theme within forty minutes00:42credible evidence3 channels · 3 networksAAH · KHAl-Janoub airs guest calling execution the minimum for Saudi criminalsAl-Janoub TV (Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official) aired guest Hussein al-Shaihani saying that for "Saudi criminals here" the minimum penalty is execution, in a segment tagged Iraq and Saudi Arabia00:42preponderance1 channel · 1 networkHarakat al-Jihad wal-BinaSUNDAY, 2 AUGUST 202627 SIGNALS
AAH channel airs Baghdad saying Iran's oil exemption never materialisedOn the same AAH broadcast the government spokesman said Iran told Baghdad Iraqi oil was covered by a Hormuz exemption, but that no exemption exists on the ground22:51credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHAAH channel airs government denial of tip-off to Hashd commandersAssessed: AAH's Al-Ahad TV aired the government spokesman denying any Iraqi coordination with or foreknowledge of the Saudi-American attacks, denying that PM al-Zaydi warned Hashd commanders, and placing war authority with parliament22:51credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAH · PMFAnsar Allah al-Awfiya announces 19th Brigade deployment in KarbalaAnsar Allah al-Awfiya's official channel announced that the movements section of its 19th Brigade began field deployment in Karbala under the Arbaeen visitation security plan20:45credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAnsar Allah al-AwfiyaKH channel carries Wasit alliance condemning "American-Saudi attacks"Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official owned media) reported that the 20th Revolution Alliance in Wasit "condemns the American-Saudi attacks and warns about the current circumstances", without naming a target, an action or a timetable20:45preponderance1 channel · 1 networkKHKH-affiliated channel amplifies attack on Barzani and Talabani wealthUnit 10,000 (KH — affiliated media) relayed Shaswar Abdulwahid alleging that millions of dollars are pumped daily to the Barzani and Talabani families while Kurdistan's citizens are kept from their share of the region's wealth20:45credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKHKSS-linked iNEWS pushes HEPIQ student-fee file at education ministryiNEWS (KSS — affiliated) ran the HEPIQ student-fee file as "bigger and more dangerous than merely a deduction from the student", citing Education Committee member Haider al-Mutairi on a 66,000-dinar charge19:40credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKSSAl-Ahad TV foregrounds Hakim–Zaidi call to diversify oil export outletsAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) presented Ammar al-Hakim and al-Zaidi as affirming that the financial crisis must be addressed by diversifying income sources and oil-export outlets19:40credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHKH channels track ammunition blasts at Taji camp, name no attackerKH-affiliated Unit 10,000 and Sabereen News reported smoke, then exploding ammunition, then continuing detonations at Taji Camp in Baghdad over a 38-minute span on 2026-08-02, attributing the blasts to a fire and naming no perpetrator16:57preponderance2 channels · 1 networkKHSabereen News reports raids and digging in Jumaili refinery caseSabereen News (KH — affiliated) reported simultaneous security raids in Sharqat on the home of a former Baiji refinery department head and on family homes in al-Suwaidan village, with searches and digging continuing in the Adnan al-Jumaili case15:45preponderance1 channel · 1 networkKHAAH channel publishes order removing acting Shia Endowment chiefAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) published what it presented as the signed order ending Haidar al-Shamri's assignment as acting head of the Shia Endowment Office and returning him to Baghdad University's College of Medicine15:45credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHSabereen News runs artefact-expert probe claim, then Authority's narrowingSabereen News (KH — affiliated) carried a circulating claim that archaeologist Amer Abdul Razzaq was referred for investigation after demanding an artefact back from Kuwait, then half an hour later carried the Antiquities Authority saying the step was only questioning15:45credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKHPress: PMF clears Nineveh outposts over U.S. strike fearsShafaq News reported that Popular Mobilization Forces cleared outposts in Nineveh over fears of U.S. strikes; no PMF or faction statement appears in the collected militia material14:47preponderance1 channel · 1 networkPMFAl-Janoub TV airs Abbas Ghadir mocking Abu Ali al-ShaybaniAl-Janoub TV (Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official) published Abbas Ghadir mocking Abu Ali al-Shaybani over a sovereignty statement, naming him directly14:47credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkHarakat al-Jihad wal-BinaNineveh: Nujaba shows PMF deployed, press reports it relocatingAl-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) announced a Popular Mobilization Forces security operation in the Nineveh Plain for Arbaeen at 10:27, while Shafaq News had reported at 09:04 that the Popular Mobilization Forces were vacating their Nineveh premises for alternative sites in anticipation of American strikes13:56preponderance2 channels · 1 networkNujaba · PMFAl-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official) and Watan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) relayed National Security Service Arbaeen figures: ten arrests for alleged extremist affiliation, 55 rumours "handled", and 16,000 Husseini processions catalogued in a central database13:56credible evidence2 channels · 1 networkBadr OrganizationAAH presses Foreign Ministry and prime minister over "Saudi aggression"Asaib Ahl al-Haq's Al-Ahad TV attacked the Iraqi Foreign Ministry for not withdrawing ambassadors or protesting to Riyadh, and reported within the same half-hour that AAH's Sadiqoun bloc had submitted a parliamentary question to the prime minister on what it called "Saudi-American aggression"13:00credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHBadr outlet ties weapons handover to American withdrawalWatan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) attributed to al-Tamimi the statement that restricting weapons to the state is contingent on the departure of American forces and that the resistance will not surrender its weapons otherwise06:25credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkBadr OrganizationBadr outlet pairs patronage complaint with backing for al-ZaydiOn the same outlet five minutes earlier, al-Tamimi accused parties of exploiting state resources through their arms inside institutions while declaring support for Prime Minister al-Zaydi's steps and agreements06:25credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkBadr OrganizationBadr outlet attacks acting appointments over security ministriesWatan TV (Badr Organization — affiliated) carried al-Tamimi accusing parties of exploiting state resources through their arms inside institutions and calling the running of military, security and sensitive agencies by acting officials a violation of the constitution04:55credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkBadr OrganizationAAH channel presses Iraqi institutions to answer alleged Saudi strikesAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) carried analyst Hisham al-Sayyab demanding the presidencies, parliament, foreign ministry, intelligence and national security act on what he called Saudi aggression and take it to the UN Security Council04:07credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHAAH and KH channels give Sulaymaniyah strike two different targetsAl-Ahad TV (AAH — official) and Sabereen News (KH — affiliated) posted night footage of Sulaymaniyah within four minutes of each other on 1 August, describing the same city's burning site as, respectively, the headquarters of Iranian opposition parties and American sites02:38credible evidence2 channels · 2 networksAAH · KHKH and Badr channels report Erbil aerial clash within a minuteUnit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) and Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official) reported an aerial clash over Erbil in near-identical wording within one minute of each other on the night of 1 August, naming no aircraft, participants or perpetrator02:38preponderance2 channels · 2 networksKH · Badr OrganizationMilitia channels report drone hits in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil, name different targetsBetween 21:51 and 22:30 on 1 August, Kataib Hezbollah-affiliated, Badr-owned and Nujaba-owned channels reported drone strikes and direct hits in Sulaymaniyah and Erbil, describing the targets variously as American sites, opposition headquarters and separatist-party headquarters, with no claim of responsibility in the collected material01:40preponderance4 channels · 3 networksKH · Badr OrganizationAl-Ahad TV airs call for mass arrests as fiscal remedyAsaib Ahl al-Haq's Al-Ahad TV aired a commentator saying Iraq's escape from its financial crisis lies in either printing currency or "arresting 100 more Adnan Jumailis", twenty minutes after airing a claim that oil revenue fell from nine trillion to two trillion in three months01:40credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkAAHKSS-aligned iNEWS carries MP calling silence on foreign overflights treasonKata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada-aligned iNEWS carried MP Faleh al-Khazali saying 136 Turkish military penetration points and four bases in Mosul are ignored, and that silence over daily Israeli and American aircraft in Iraq's skies is treason01:40credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKSSAAH channel airs guest saying factions can target Saudi ArabiaOn Al-Ahad TV, political researcher Hussein Shlooshi said the factions possess weapons and are capable of targeting Saudi Arabia, and that the factions have put the ball in the government's court to respond to 'Saudi aggression'00:42preponderance1 channel · 1 networkAAHKH channel publishes Interior memo mapping every PMF siteSabereen News published a scanned Interior Ministry intelligence memo dated 1 August ordering a detailed inventory of all PMF headquarters, camps and offices including MGRS coordinates, manpower and weapons stores, framed around recent strikes on PMF sites00:42credible evidence1 channel · 1 networkKH · PMF