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MENA politics is fluid. Parties merge, split, reform; leaders are elected, dismissed, or killed; regimes fall. The party and politician pages capture the dataset as it stands now; Pulse captures the movement — what just happened, what's under way, what's rumored but not yet formal. Each event carries a confidence rating and the same per-field source citations as every other Tayyar entity.

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Confirmed Election scheduled Iraq November 11, 2025

Iraqi parliamentary election scheduled for November 2025

Iraq's next parliamentary election is scheduled for 2025-11-11. The Sadrist Movement (Sairoon) has not announced whether it will end its 2022 political withdrawal and contest seats.

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Reported Coalition formed Iraq April 2025

Iraq prepares for late-2025 elections under Sudani

Iraq's parliamentary elections scheduled for November 2025 set the stage for either a renewal of Sudani's Coordination Framework government or a return of Sadrist influence after Muqtada al-Sadr's 2022 withdrawal. The Council of Representatives passed an electoral law revision in spring 2025 modifying district boundaries; opposition parties accused the changes of favoring Coordination Framework members.
Confirmed Coalition formed Iraq October 27, 2022

Iraq: Sudani forms government after the longest deadlock in Iraqi history

Iraq spent over a year without a sitting government after the October 2021 elections — through Sadrist withdrawal from parliament, mass resignations of Sadrist MPs, deadly Green Zone clashes in August 2022, and a constitutional impasse over who could form a cabinet. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, a Coordination Framework nominee, finally took office, ending the deadlock but consolidating power in the Iran-aligned bloc Muqtada al-Sadr had walked out to oppose.
Confirmed Other Iraq October 1, 2019

Tishreen protest movement begins

Cross-sectarian protests across Baghdad and the Shia south demanding the resignation of the post-2003 political class. PM Adel Abdul Mahdi resigns by December; protests continue through 2020 with hundreds killed in security-force violence.
Confirmed Election held Iraq September 25, 2017

Kurdish independence referendum

Iraqi Kurdistan votes 92.7% in favour of independence. Baghdad rejects the result; within weeks, federal forces retake Kirkuk and most disputed territories, ending KRG's post-2003 territorial expansion.
Confirmed Other Iraq July 10, 2017

Mosul liberated from ISIS

Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition retook Mosul on 2017-07-10 after a nine-month battle, ending three years of ISIS control over Iraq's second-largest city. The defeat marked the effective end of the ISIS caliphate's territorial control.
Confirmed Other Iraq June 10, 2014

Mosul falls to ISIS

Iraqi army collapses in Mosul; ISIS captures Iraq's second-largest city in two days, looting central bank cash and US-supplied military equipment. Ten days later, al-Baghdadi declares the caliphate from al-Nuri Mosque.
Confirmed Election held Iraq March 7, 2010

Iraqi 2010 election: Allawi wins, Maliki forms government

The 2010 Iraqi parliamentary election ended with Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc narrowly winning the most seats. However, Maliki's State of Law Coalition outmaneuvered Allawi over 9 months to form the government — a moment widely seen as setting Iraq on the sectarian path that enabled ISIS's 2014 rise.

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