At 05:40 this morning KAF Center (KH — official social media channel) posted video captioned "على امتداد الطرق المؤدية إلى كربلاء، يقف الرجال" ("along the roads leading to Karbala, the men stand") with the hashtag #لبيك_داعي_الله. Sabereen News (KH — affiliated) and Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) carried identical wording and the same video within the following minute. Visual review of the footage describes a convoy of white pickup trucks on a desert road and masked men in black tactical gear carrying rifles, with a yellow-and-green flag visible; the review states location and group identity cannot be confirmed from the imagery.
An official KH channel is publicly placing armed formations on the pilgrimage routes into Karbala, a deployment claim made in KH's own voice rather than relayed.