Between 11:57 and 12:45 UTC on 28 July, six tracked channels published the appointment of Major General Yahya Rasul Abdullah as Defence Ministry spokesperson: Kataib Hezbollah's official Al-Ittijah TV at 11:57:46 ("تكليف اللواء يحيى رسول عبد الله ناطقاً باسم وزارة الدفاع"), the KH-affiliated Unit 10,000 at 11:59:40 and Sabereen News at 11:59:44, the Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada-affiliated Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi at 12:00:24 with a photograph of Rasul in Iraqi Army uniform, Asaib Ahl al-Haq's official Al-Ahad TV at 12:45:12, and the Badr Organization's official Al-Ghadeer TV at 12:45:40. The Al-Ahad TV and Al-Ghadeer TV versions used the fuller formulation "القائد العام للقوات المسلحة يكلف اللواء يحيى رسول عبد الله ناطقاً باسم وزارة الدفاع" ("the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces tasks Major General Yahya Rasul Abdullah as Defence Ministry spokesperson"). No channel added commentary, endorsement, criticism or Iraqi political framing, and the deterministic text-matching produced no republication cluster for these posts. No external media reporting on the appointment appears in the retrieved evidence, so the wording available is the militia relay of an official announcement rather than independent confirmation.
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