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Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to President Donald J. Trump, speaks with Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend,
QAYYARA WEST AIRFIELD, Iraq - Arab today

President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner travelled with the top U.S. general to an Iraqi base 10 miles (16km) from Mosul on Tuesday, and voiced hope the city's eventual recapture from IS would be "a victory for the world".

Kushner was on the second day of a trip to Iraq as the guest of Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff. The visit to the Hammam Al Alil base allowed them to get an operational briefing from Iraqi and U.S. commanders. 

The trip has demonstrated the far-reaching portfolio of Kushner, 36, who is part of Trump's innermost circle and who has been given a wide range of domestic and foreign policy responsibilities, including working on a Middle East peace deal. His views on iraq could shape Trump's own opinions. It comes as Trump is examining ways to accelerate a U.S.-led coalition campaign that U.S. and Iraqi officials say has so far been largely successful in uprooting IS in Iraq and Syria.

Mosul is by far the biggest city ever to have been held by IS, and winning it back would largely destroy the Iraqi part of the group's "caliphate", proclaimed from a Mosul mosque in 2014.

Although Trump campaigned on defeating IS, he has not yet announced any major changes to war strategy. The Mosul battle, the biggest in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, has been under way since October, with 100,000 Iraqi troops, Kurdish fighters and majority sect seeking to drive out the militants with the support of U.S.-led air strikes.

Speaking after lengthy battlefield reports from two Iraqi generals, Kushner sounded upbeat about the campaign and said the partnership between U.S. and Iraqi troops was "very impressive". He also expressed hope that partnership would be enduring, signalling White House interest in longer-term U.S. military assistance.

"I hope the victory that you have in Mosul in the near future will not just be a victory for the American and Iraqi troops but it will be a victory for the world," Kushner said.

The trip has been Kushner's first to Iraq and the visit to Hamman Al Alil, where U.S. advisors and artillery are positioned to assist the battle in Mosul, was also the closest Dunford has gotten to Mosul since the campaign began.

Iraqi security forces are engaged in fierce, house-to-house fighting in Mosul. Nearly 290,000 people have fled the city to escape the fighting, according to the United Nations, and it has had a heavy toll on civilians trapped in the city.

The advance has been slowed since March 17, when scores of people sheltering from air strikes were killed in a blast. The United States has acknowledged it may have had some kind of role in the incident but also said IS may be to blame. A U.S. investigation is ongoing.

Dunford assured the Iraqi generals of continued U.S. support despite the civilian deaths.

Although the loss of Mosul would deal a major defeat to IS, U.S. and Iraqi officials are preparing for smaller battles even after the city is recaptured and expect the group to go underground to fight as a traditional insurgency.

 

 

Source: Timesofoman

 

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