Jared Kushner Meets With Iraqi Leader on Future of ISIS Battle<br />By TIM ARANGOAPRIL 3, 2017<br />ERBIL, Iraq — After arriving in Baghdad on Monday afternoon, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, met with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to discuss the fight against the Islamic State<br />and whether the United States would leave troops in Iraq afterward, according to a spokesman for the prime minister.<br />Mr. Kushner was also expected to meet with officials from the United States-led military coalition<br />and Iraq’s minister of defense, according to an Iraqi military spokesman.<br />Mr. Kushner, a senior adviser to the president, traveled to Iraq along with Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs<br />of Staff, as part of the general’s planned trip to discuss the battle against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL.<br />With administration officials having signaled a desire to take a tougher stance on Iran, which like Iraq is majority Shiite and whose power inside Iraq is paramount, Iraqi officials have worried<br />that their country could again become a place for the two foreign powers to settle their differences.<br />Mr. Trump has given mixed signals on this subject, at once vowing to end costly military missions abroad while,<br />as a candidate, criticizing Mr. Obama for withdrawing all American troops from Iraq at the end of 2011.
