At 12:55 on 28 July 2026, Watan TV — Badr Organization affiliated/aligned media — posted that "القائد العام للقوات المسلحة يكلف اللواء يحيى رسول عبد الله ناطقاً باسم وزارة الدفاع" ("the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces assigns Maj. Gen. Yahya Rasul Abdallah as spokesman for the Ministry of Defence"), with a captioned image reviewed visually showing an officer in Iraqi Army uniform with a maroon beret and the name "يحيى رسول عبدالله"; the visual review was image-only and no audio was assessed. The post states no date of assignment, names no predecessor, and gives no faction affiliation for the officer. No supplied external or non-militia media reporting on the appointment is available in this window, and no other tracked actor was observed carrying it. The rung is credible for the fact of the report — a named appointment on a dated channel with a matching captioned graphic — but the evidence does not support any claim about who backed the placement.
The Defence Ministry spokesman controls the state's public account of military and militia-related incidents, making the identity and alignment of the holder consequential for how future kinetic events inside Iraq are officially framed.