For a 4-year-old Iraqi girl injured in airstrike, the real struggle is to forget
by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
Oct 19, 2017
3 minutes
MOSUL, Iraq - She survived a U.S. airstrike in west Mosul in March, but at what cost? It killed her mother and sent shrapnel ripping into her eyes.
Sitting on a hospital bed barely two weeks after the attack, 4-year-old Hawra Hasan had her hair shorn, her eyes sealed shut as she awaited multiple operations.
It seemed certain she would be blind.
The city of Mosul has been freed from the grip of the militant group Islamic State, but in the months since, many
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