Iraqi Government Formation 2026
Newly elected lawmakers attend the first parliament session, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 29, 2025. (Iraqi Parliament Media Office via AP)
Iraqi lawmakers in the parliament hall. (Photo: Iraqi Council of Representatives)
Photo shows a meeting of Shiite Coordination Framework (SCF). (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
Prominent Iraqi political, religious leader, and head of Shiite National Movement, Muqtada al-Sadr. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, (C-L), Shiite Coordination Framework leaders, Baghdad, May 4, 2026. (Photo: Kurdistan Presidency)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani. (Photo: Kurdistan Presidency)
A Meeting of the Coordination Framework. (Photo: Handout)
Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi, and US Embassy Baghdad logo. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani, R, Ali al-Zaidi, Iraq's PM-Designate. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
Daner Abdulghafar, spokesperson for the KDP parliamentary faction in Baghdad. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
The likeness of George Washington is seen on a U.S. one dollar bill, March 13, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. (AP)
Nouri al-Maliki, head of the State of Law Coalition. (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
Iraq’s Coordination Framework Deadlocked as U.S. Sanctions Reshape Political Calculations
Coordination Framework leading member Abdulrahman al-Jazairi. (Photo: al-Jazairi's media office)
The logo of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). (Graphic: Kurdistan24)
Nizar Amedi, Iraq's President. (Photo: Social Media)