Washington - White House Senior Adviser
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, is
visiting Iraq with Marine General Joseph Dunford, the chairman
of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, a senior Trump
administration official said on Sunday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said
Kushner wanted to see Iraq for himself and to show support for
the Iraqi government. The official was confirming a report by
other media, including a tweet by a New York Times reporter.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met Trump for the first
time on March 20 and said afterwards that he won assurances of
greater US support in fighting Islamic State militants but
cautioned that military might alone would not be sufficient.
Trump took office on Jan. 20, pledging a new strategy to
defeat the hardline militant group that seized large swaths of
Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Before Trump took office, Iraqi forces recaptured a string
of major cities from the group, shrank its finances and
significantly stemmed the flow of foreign fighters, all with the
support of US-led coalition air strikes and military advisers.