Watan TV, affiliated with the Badr Organization, reported at 12:34 on 26 July, citing "مصدر مطلع" (an informed source), that Kamel Abbas, head of the Azm bloc in the Salah al-Din Provincial Council, had been arrested "على خلفية قضايا ترتبط بالمعتقل بتهم فساد مثنى السامرائي" — over matters connected to Muthanna al-Samarrai, who is detained on corruption charges. The item is a single-source report carried as a news graphic; visual review confirms the on-screen text matches the caption and shows no imagery of an arrest. No other tracked channel in the collected window carried the story, and no external media reporting on it was supplied.
Provincial councils control local contracts, land and appointments, and the judicial removal of a rival bloc's chief — publicised first through Badr's own network — is how the balance in a contested governorate shifts without a shot being fired.