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timeline · 90 dated events

Regional timeline

Every dated event in the dataset, plotted year by year. Pulse is the recent-first list view; this is the scroll-through-history view. Color-coded by confidence — solid bars for confirmed events, dashed for reported, dotted for rumored or speculative.

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Density · 90 dated events across 22 years
2004 2014 2025
2004 1 event
  1. November 11, 2004 PS flag Palestine Leader changed
    Yasser Arafat dies in Paris

    Arafat dies at the Percy military hospital outside Paris after weeks of declining health. His death ends 35 years of Fatah leadership and ushers in Mahmoud Abbas as PA president af…
2006 1 event
  1. January 25, 2006 PS flag Palestine Election held
    Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Council election

    Hamas takes 74 of 132 seats in the PLC election, ending decades of Fatah dominance and precipitating the Western boycott of the PA government. The Battle of Gaza eighteen months la…
2007 1 event
  1. June 15, 2007 PS flag Palestine Coalition collapsed
    Battle of Gaza: Hamas takes over

    After the 2006 Palestinian legislative election won by Hamas and the breakdown of the unity government, Hamas defeated Fatah forces in Gaza in a week-long armed conflict ending 200…
2008 1 event
  1. December 27, 2008 PS flag Palestine Other
    Operation Cast Lead begins

    Israeli air operation against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip — the first of the post-2007 series of large Israel–Hamas military confrontations. Twenty-two days of operations, ~1,4…
2010 2 events
  1. March 7, 2010 IQ flag Iraq Election held
    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 mo…
  2. December 17, 2010 TN flag Tunisia Other
    Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolates

    Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid on 2010-12-17 in protest against police harassment. His act triggered the Tunisian revolution that overth…
2011 6 events
  1. January 14, 2011 TN flag Tunisia Leader changed
    Ben Ali flees Tunisia

    Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on 2011-01-14 after 23 years in power, the first Arab Spring leader to fall. Tunisia transitioned to a democratic sy…
  2. February 11, 2011 EG flag Egypt Leader changed
    Hosni Mubarak resigns

    18 days into the Tahrir Square uprising, VP Omar Suleiman announces Mubarak's resignation; power transfers to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. Ends 30 years of Mubarak pres…
  3. February 14, 2011 BH flag Bahrain Other
    Bahraini uprising and Saudi/UAE intervention

    A Shia-majority popular uprising at Pearl Roundabout began on 2011-02-14 demanding political reform. Saudi Arabia and UAE intervened militarily in March 2011 under the GCC Peninsul…
  4. February 20, 2011 MA flag Morocco Other
    February 20 Movement and Moroccan constitutional reform

    Pro-reform protests across Morocco starting 2011-02-20 prompted King Mohammed VI to announce a new constitution (passed July 2011) that nominally devolved some powers to parliament…
  5. March 15, 2011 SY flag Syria Other
    Syrian uprising begins

    The Syrian uprising began on 2011-03-15 with protests in Deraa after Assad regime security forces tortured children who had spray-painted anti-regime graffiti. Assad's violent resp…
  6. October 20, 2011 LY flag Libya Leader killed
    Muammar Gaddafi killed

    NATO-backed rebel forces captured and killed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi outside Sirte on 2011-10-20, ending 42 years of his rule. Libya descended into civil war and the country …
2012 1 event
  1. June 24, 2012 EG flag Egypt Election held
    Mohamed Morsi elected president

    Muslim Brotherhood–backed Morsi defeats Ahmed Shafiq with 51.7% in the second-round runoff — the first democratically elected civilian president in Egyptian history.
2013 3 events
  1. July 3, 2013 EG flag Egypt Coalition collapsed
    Morsi ousted, Brotherhood government ends

    Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed elected President Mohamed Morsi from power on 2013-07-03 after mass protests against the Brotherhood government, suspended the constit…
  2. August 14, 2013 EG flag Egypt Other
    Rabaa massacre

    Egyptian security forces cleared the Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda Square sit-ins on 2013-08-14, killing at least 817 Muslim Brotherhood supporters in a single day. Human Rights Watch…
  3. August 21, 2013 SY flag Syria Other
    Ghouta chemical attack

    Sarin rockets hit rebel-held suburbs of Damascus; UN investigators confirm chemical-weapons use. Hundreds killed. The episode triggers Obama's decision to back away from the "red l…
2014 3 events
  1. June 10, 2014 IQ flag Iraq Other
    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 decla…
  2. July 8, 2014 PS flag Palestine Other
    Operation Protective Edge begins

    51-day war between Israel and Hamas. ~2,200 Palestinians killed (UN), ~73 Israelis killed. Triggered by the Hamas kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens followed by escalati…
  3. September 21, 2014 YE flag Yemen Coalition collapsed
    Houthis take Sanaa

    Houthi forces, allied at the time with ousted ex-President Saleh, took control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on 2014-09-21, forcing the recognized government south to Aden. Triggered…
2015 2 events
  1. March 26, 2015 YE flag Yemen Other
    Saudi-led coalition military intervention in Yemen

    A Saudi-led nine-country coalition began military operations against the Houthis in Yemen on 2015-03-26 (Operation Decisive Storm). The intervention has continued in various forms …
  2. September 30, 2015 SY flag Syria Other
    Russian military intervention in Syria

    Russian Aerospace Forces begin air operations from Khmeimim airbase against anti-Assad armed groups. The intervention reverses regime territorial losses and reshapes the war's dipl…
2016 1 event
  1. April 25, 2016 SA flag Saudi Arabia Other
    Saudi Vision 2030 launched

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced Vision 2030 on 2016-04-25 — a sweeping economic and social transformation plan aimed at reducing Saudi dependence on oil. The frame…
2017 5 events
  1. June 5, 2017 QA flag Qatar Other
    GCC blockade of Qatar begins

    Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt severed diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar on 2017-06-05 over allegations of Qatari support for terrorism and ties to Iran. The block…
  2. June 21, 2017 SA flag Saudi Arabia Leader changed
    MBS named Crown Prince

    King Salman elevated his son Mohammed bin Salman from deputy to Crown Prince on 2017-06-21, displacing his nephew Mohammed bin Nayef. MBS's subsequent Ritz-Carlton anti-corruption …
  3. July 10, 2017 IQ flag Iraq Other
    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 mar…
  4. September 25, 2017 IQ flag Iraq Election held
    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 …
  5. November 4, 2017 SA flag Saudi Arabia Other
    Ritz-Carlton anti-corruption purge

    Saudi Crown Prince MBS detained over 200 senior Saudi princes, businessmen, and officials at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel on 2017-11-04 under the banner of an anti-corruption campai…
2018 2 events
  1. May 14, 2018 IL flag Israel Other
    US embassy moved to Jerusalem

    The United States formally opened its embassy in Jerusalem on 2018-05-14, ending decades of US policy that kept the embassy in Tel Aviv pending a negotiated resolution of Jerusalem…
  2. November 4, 2018 BH flag Bahrain Figure imprisoned
    Ali Salman sentenced to life

    Al-Wefaq Secretary-General Ali Salman, originally detained in 2014, was sentenced to life in prison on 2018-11-04 on espionage charges. He remains imprisoned. The 2016 court-ordere…
2019 5 events
  1. February 22, 2019 DZ flag Algeria Other
    Algerian Hirak begins

    Mass protests across Algeria began on 2019-02-22 against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term despite his 2013 stroke. The "Hirak" forced his resignation on 2019-0…
  2. April 2, 2019 DZ flag Algeria Leader changed
    Algeria: Bouteflika resigns after Hirak protests

    After six weeks of mass weekly protests rejecting his bid for a fifth term, Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned the presidency. The Hirak movement — broad, peaceful, leaderless — kept ma…
  3. April 11, 2019 SD flag Sudan Leader changed
    Omar al-Bashir overthrown

    A military coup overthrew Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on 2019-04-11 after months of mass protests. Initially seen as a democratic opening, the transition was derailed by the …
  4. October 1, 2019 IQ flag Iraq Other
    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 th…
  5. October 17, 2019 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Lebanese October Revolution begins

    Mass anti-sectarian protests across Lebanon began on 2019-10-17 after a proposed WhatsApp tax, demanding the resignation of the entire political class. The "thawra" forced PM Saad …
2020 1 event
  1. August 4, 2020 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Beirut port explosion

    2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate detonated at Beirut's port on 2020-08-04, killing over 200 people and devastating much of the city. The blast accelerated Lebanon's financial colla…
2021 5 events
  1. May 10, 2021 PS flag Palestine Other
    Sheikh Jarrah crisis and the May 2021 Gaza war

    11-day Israel–Hamas war triggered by clashes over Sheikh Jarrah evictions and Al-Aqsa Mosque police raids during Ramadan. ~250 Palestinians killed, ~13 Israelis killed. First major…
  2. June 13, 2021 IL flag Israel Coalition formed
    Bennett-Lapid "change government" formed

    An eight-party coalition — the first to include an Arab party (Ra'am) — was sworn in on 2021-06-13, briefly displacing Netanyahu after 12 years. Bennett served as PM until June 202…
  3. July 25, 2021 TN flag Tunisia Other
    Tunisia: Saied freezes parliament and dismisses Mechichi

    On the anniversary of Tunisia's republic, President Kais Saied invoked Article 80 of the constitution to dismiss the prime minister, freeze parliament, and lift legal immunity from…
  4. September 8, 2021 MA flag Morocco Election held
    Morocco: PJD collapses, RNI wins — Islamists fall from 125 seats to 13

    After a decade in government, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) lost more than 90% of its parliamentary seats in a single election. The National Rally of Independents (RNI), …
  5. October 25, 2021 SD flag Sudan Coalition collapsed
    Sudanese 2021 coup

    Generals Burhan and Hemedti seized full control of the Sudanese transitional government on 2021-10-25, dissolving the civilian-led cabinet that had been in power since the 2019 ove…
2022 4 events
  1. September 27, 2022 SA flag Saudi Arabia Leader changed
    Saudi Arabia: Mohammed bin Salman appointed Prime Minister

    King Salman appointed his son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the prime ministership — a post the monarch has historically held in concurrent capacity. The move codified what w…
  2. October 27, 2022 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Israel-Lebanon maritime border agreement

    Lebanon and Israel signed a US-mediated agreement demarcating their maritime border on 2022-10-27, resolving a long-standing dispute over offshore gas fields. The agreement was rea…
  3. October 27, 2022 IQ flag Iraq Coalition formed
    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 Zo…
  4. December 29, 2022 IL flag Israel Coalition formed
    Israel: Netanyahu's sixth government — the furthest-right coalition in Israeli history

    After his fifth electoral run in under four years, Benjamin Netanyahu returned to the prime minister's office at the head of a coalition that for the first time placed Itamar Ben-G…
2023 11 events
  1. March 10, 2023 SA flag Saudi Arabia Other
    Iran-Saudi diplomatic restoration

    China brokered a Saudi-Iranian agreement on 2023-03-10 to restore diplomatic relations after seven years of rupture. Both states reopened embassies. Significantly reduced the direc…
  2. April 15, 2023 SD flag Sudan Coalition collapsed
    Sudanese civil war begins

    Open warfare broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (led by Sovereignty Council chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan) and the Rapid Support Forces (led by Hemedti) on 2023-04-15. T…
  3. April 15, 2023 SD flag Sudan Coalition collapsed
    Sudan: Civil war breaks out between SAF and RSF

    Two years after they jointly overthrew the civilian transitional government, the Sudanese Armed Forces under Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces under Hemedti turned on each other.…
  4. April 17, 2023 TN flag Tunisia Figure imprisoned
    Rached Ghannouchi imprisoned

    Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi was detained on 2023-04-17 and subsequently sentenced to multiple years in prison on a series of charges widely viewed as politically motivated by …
  5. July 24, 2023 IL flag Israel Other
    Israeli judicial overhaul first reading passes

    The Knesset passed the first major bill of the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul on 2023-07-24 — the "reasonableness" amendment limiting Supreme Court review of executive de…
  6. October 3, 2023 TN flag Tunisia Figure imprisoned
    Abir Moussi imprisoned

    Free Destourian Party leader Abir Moussi, the most prominent secular opposition voice to President Saied, was detained on 2023-10-03 on charges widely viewed as politically motivat…
  7. October 7, 2023 IL flag Israel Other
    October 7 Hamas attack on Israel

    Hamas launched a coordinated assault from Gaza on Israeli border communities on 2023-10-07, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. The deadliest single day for Jews si…
  8. October 7, 2023 PS flag Palestine Other
    7 October 2023 attacks on southern Israel

    Hamas-led infiltration through the Gaza border fence. ~1,200 Israelis killed, ~240 hostages taken. Triggered the subsequent Israeli ground operation in Gaza, the longest and deadli…
  9. November 19, 2023 YE flag Yemen Other
    Yemen: Houthis begin attacking Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Gaza

    Six weeks into the Gaza war, Houthi forces in Yemen began launching missiles and drones at commercial shipping in the Red Sea — and at southern Israel — framing the attacks as a bl…
  10. December 12, 2023 EG flag Egypt Election held
    Sisi re-elected with 89.6% vote

    Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was re-elected for a third term as President of Egypt on 2023-12-12 with 89.6% of the vote. Major opposition figures were either barred from running or impriso…
  11. December 18, 2023 EG flag Egypt Election held
    Egypt: Sisi wins a third term with 89.6% in a tightly managed election

    Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was re-elected to a third term in a vote his three official challengers conceded was uncompetitive before counting finished. The most-watched opposition candid…
2024 24 events
  1. January 26, 2024 IL flag Israel Other
    ICJ provisional measures in South Africa v. Israel genocide case

    The International Court of Justice issued provisional measures in the South Africa v. Israel case on 2024-01-26, finding it plausible that Israeli operations in Gaza could be in br…
  2. May 10, 2024 KW flag Kuwait Coalition collapsed
    Emir Mishal dissolves National Assembly

    Kuwaiti Emir Mishal Al-Ahmad dissolved the National Assembly and suspended parts of the constitution for up to four years on 2024-05-10, ending Kuwait's tradition of a vocal electe…
  3. June 9, 2024 IL flag Israel Coalition collapsed
    National Unity exits emergency war cabinet

    Benny Gantz and the National Unity party withdrew from Israel's emergency wartime unity government, citing the absence of a post-war Gaza plan. The exit ended the unity arrangement…
  4. June 29, 2024 MR flag Mauritania Election held
    Ghazouani re-elected for second term

    Mohamed Ould Ghazouani was re-elected President of Mauritania on 2024-06-29 for a second five-year term.
  5. July 2024 IL flag Israel Party formed
    The Democrats formed from Labor–Meretz merger

    Israeli Labor Party and Meretz formally merged in July 2024 to form The Democrats, with Yair Golan elected leader. The merger consolidated the Zionist left into a single bloc after…
  6. July 31, 2024 PS flag Palestine Leader killed
    Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran

    Hamas political bureau chief killed by a guided projectile at a Revolutionary Guard guesthouse in Tehran, hours after attending the inauguration of Iranian president Masoud Pezeshk…
  7. September 3, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Figure imprisoned
    Lebanon: former central-bank governor Salameh arrested on corruption charges

    Riad Salameh, Lebanon's central-bank governor for three decades and architect of the Ponzi-like financial-engineering scheme that collapsed in 2019, was arrested in September 2024 …
  8. September 7, 2024 DZ flag Algeria Election held
    Tebboune re-elected with 84 percent vote

    Abdelmadjid Tebboune was re-elected President of Algeria on 2024-09-07 with 84 percent of the vote.
  9. September 10, 2024 JO flag Jordan Election held
    Jordan: Islamic Action Front wins biggest opposition bloc since the 1989 thaw

    Jordan's first elections under a reformed party law gave the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing — the Islamic Action Front — 31 of 138 lower-house seats, its strongest showing in …
  10. September 10, 2024 JO flag Jordan Election held
    Islamic Action Front becomes the largest bloc in Jordan's parliamentary election

    In Jordan''s general election on 10 September 2024, the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, won 31 of 138 seats — more than any other party…
  11. September 17, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Lebanon: Pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Hezbollah ranks

    Across roughly twelve hours, thousands of pagers and then walkie-talkies issued to Hezbollah members and affiliates detonated simultaneously across Lebanon and parts of Syria. The …
  12. September 27, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Leader killed
    Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrike

    Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut on 2024-09-27. Nasrallah had led Hezbollah since 1992.
  13. September 27, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Leader killed
    Lebanon: Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli airstrike on Beirut

    The Israeli air force destroyed Hezbollah's underground headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs with a series of bunker-buster bombs, killing secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah a…
  14. October 1, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon

    Israeli forces began ground operations in southern Lebanon on 2024-10-01, escalating the year-long war with Hezbollah. Came after the September 2024 pager attacks and a sustained I…
  15. October 6, 2024 TN flag Tunisia Election held
    Saied re-elected with 90 percent vote

    Kais Saied was re-elected President of Tunisia on 2024-10-06 with over 90 percent of the vote in a contest from which most opposition candidates were barred. Turnout was below 30 p…
  16. October 16, 2024 PS flag Palestine Leader killed
    Yahya Sinwar killed in Rafah

    Hamas leader and architect of the 7 October attacks killed in a chance encounter with an Israeli infantry patrol in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah. The killing was confirmed by DNA matching …
  17. October 29, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Leader changed
    Naim Qassem becomes Hezbollah Secretary-General

    Hezbollah named long-time deputy Naim Qassem as its new Secretary-General on 2024-10-29, succeeding Hassan Nasrallah.
  18. November 21, 2024 IL flag Israel Other
    ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant

    The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on 2024-11-21 for alleged war crimes and crimes a…
  19. November 27, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire

    A US-mediated 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on 2024-11-27, ending the year-long escalation. The agreement called for an Israeli withdrawal from sou…
  20. November 27, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire holds with intermittent violations

    The November 2024 ceasefire required Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River, the Lebanese army to deploy to the south, and Israeli forces to gradually return to the 1948 l…
  21. November 27, 2024 LB flag Lebanon Other
    Israel–Hezbollah ceasefire takes effect, ending the 2024 war

    A US-brokered cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on 27 November 2024, ending more than a year of escalating war. A 60-day initial period required Isr…
  22. December 8, 2024 SY flag Syria Other
    Syria: Assad regime falls after a twelve-day rebel offensive

    A rebel offensive from Idlib province under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, swept south through Aleppo, Hama, and Homs in under two weeks. Damascus fell on 8 December…
  23. December 9, 2024 SY flag Syria Other
    Israeli operations into Syria post-Assad

    Following the fall of the Assad regime, Israel conducted widespread airstrikes on former Syrian military assets in December 2024 and seized additional territory in the Golan buffer…
  24. December 9, 2024 SY flag Syria Other
    Israeli forces enter southern Syria as Assad regime falls

    Within 24 hours of the Assad regime's fall, Israeli ground forces crossed the 1974 disengagement line into the UN buffer zone in the Golan Heights, occupying positions including Mo…
2025 11 events
  1. January 9, 2025 LB flag Lebanon Election held
    Joseph Aoun elected President of Lebanon

    After a two-year presidential vacuum, Lebanese Armed Forces commander Joseph Aoun was elected President on 2025-01-09, ending the institutional impasse.
  2. January 11, 2025 YE flag Yemen Other
    US and UK begin sustained strike campaign on Houthi targets

    The first Biden-era coalition strike against Houthi positions in Yemen came in January 2024; the second Trump administration scaled up the campaign in early 2025, targeting drone p…
  3. January 19, 2025 PS flag Palestine Other
    Gaza ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal takes effect

    A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led factions in Gaza took effect on 19 January 2025, in three 42-day phases mediated by the US, Egypt and Qatar. The first phase had Hamas rele…
  4. January 29, 2025 SY flag Syria Party dissolved
    Ba'ath Party dissolved by transitional authority

    The Syrian Regional Branch of the Ba'ath Party was formally dissolved by the HTS-led transitional government in January 2025 as part of broader de-Baathification, ending the Ba'ath…
  5. January 29, 2025 SY flag Syria Leader changed
    Ahmad al-Sharaa named Syria's transitional president

    On 29 January 2025, Ahmad al-Sharaa was named president of Syria for the transitional period at a conference of the factions that toppled Bashar al-Assad. The founder and head of H…
  6. February 8, 2025 LB flag Lebanon Coalition formed
    Nawaf Salam becomes Prime Minister

    Former ICJ President Nawaf Salam was named Prime Minister of Lebanon on 2025-02-08 and tasked with forming a reform-oriented cabinet.
  7. March 13, 2025 SY flag Syria Other
    Syrian constitutional declaration

    The transitional Syrian government under al-Sharaa issued a constitutional declaration on 2025-03-13 establishing the legal framework for a five-year transition period. Islam was n…
  8. April 2025 IQ flag Iraq Coalition formed
    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 M…
  9. June 13, 2025 IL flag Israel Other
    Israel-Iran 12-day war

    Israel launched a preemptive strike campaign against Iranian nuclear facilities and senior IRGC commanders on 13 June 2025; Iran responded with the largest ballistic-missile barrag…
  10. September 2025 SA flag Saudi Arabia Other
    Saudi-Iran rapprochement deepens after the 12-day war

    The 2023 China-brokered Saudi-Iran restoration of relations survived the June 2025 war intact. By September 2025, both governments had elevated cooperation: Saudi Arabia notably di…
  11. November 11, 2025 IQ flag Iraq Election scheduled
    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…