Missed the headlines? Catch up quick, with Debrief. After twenty-three years, the US completed its final withdrawal from Iraq on Wednesday, with President Donald Trump calling the mission there a ‘quagmire’ more than once – as he sends thousands of troops and another carrier group to the Strait of Hormuz to support its war with Iran. And Israel continues to make life even more miserable for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, calling a shutdown of the entire territory necessary for security during a Jewish holiday. All this while backing violent illegal settler attacks, ramping up raids, and taking even more Palestinian territory for illegal settlements.
All that plus more stories from the week: The scale of Gaza’s destruction on Google Maps, the Flydubai plane incident, a terror plot at the UK’s RAF Fairford and Trump renaming AI to Super Intelligence.