A U.S. airstrike took her mother and threatened her eyesight. For 4-year-old Hawra, the real struggle is to forget

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.