President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner visited Iraq on the weekend, US media reported. A senior administration official told the NY Times that Kushner, 36, was invited over by Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
President Trump relies on Kushner as his envoy to foreign leaders, occasionally on a competing trajectory with Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, as in the case of Kushner’s discussions with Mexico’s leaders regarding Trump’s promise to build a wall at their border.
At the moment, in Iraq, US military forces are supporting Iraqi forces in their fight to liberate the city of Mosul from ISIS.