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April 3, 2017

Kushner Visits Iraq, as U.S. Continues Airstrikes on Mosul
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President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner visited
Iraq over the weekend amid the ongoing U.S. and Iraqi militaries'
campaign to retake Mosul from ISIS. The monitoring group Airwars says
dozens of civilians were reportedly killed or wounded by airstrikes and
shelling on Friday. The group also reports the U.S. launched six more
airstrikes on Mosul over the weekend. U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in
Mosul have killed hundreds of civilians in recent months, including a
single strike on March 17 that may have killed up to 200 civilians. This
is Aly Ibrahim, a resident of west Mosul.

Aly Ibrahim: "We went away after the airstrikes. The airstrikes struck
every building on the block, destroying it. There were no Islamic State
fighters. A whole block destroyed from top to bottom by coalition
planes."



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