Sitting side by side in the Oval Office, Trump said, «We've become very good friends over a very short period of time,» and produced charts to show the depth of Saudi purchases of U.S.
military hardware and what he said were the number of
American jobs they are providing.
Before that, air strikes had been used to force ISIS away from trapped civilians on Sinjar Mountain, averting another humanitarian crisis, and the bulk of
American bombing has been in the Mosul Dam area, seeking to destroy the
military hardware ISIS need to try and retake the dam off Kurdish Pershmerga militias.