Iraqi Dinar Brief - July 31, 2026: Gaza Disarms, Baghdad Watches

Friday, July 31. Trump's Board of Peace has reached an agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and every other armed faction in Gaza. The heavy weapons get decommissioned and put into secure storage, the tunnels and the weapons plants come apart, Israeli forces pull back as the surrender proceeds, and an international stabilization force stands up beside a new Palestinian police to hold the ground. Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, the 3 mediators, brokered it. Nickolay Mladenov, the Board's High Representative for Gaza, thanked all of them for keeping the parties at the table.

And it is worth marking how big a move this is. For 2 generations, every American president who came near this region inherited the same war and handed it, unfinished, to the next one. What Trump put on the record last night runs the other way. An armed movement that has shaped Middle East conflict for decades, told to give up its weapons under international supervision, with a government ready to step into the space it leaves. None of this is accidental. A settlement this size gets built patiently, capital by capital, from the Gulf to Baghdad, and then it plays out in the open on a schedule set long before the cameras arrived. We have spent months watching these pieces get set on the board, Iraq among them. This is a big one coming down.

Here is the part we connect that the headlines won't. The same playbook is already loaded and waiting on Iraq's militias next.