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US Journalist Shelly Kittleson Kidnapped in Iraq
Security forces arrested one suspect and seized a vehicle as officials and U.S. agencies searched for her release, Al-Monitor said.
- On Tuesday, American freelance journalist Shelley Kittleson was abducted in central Baghdad near the Baghdad Hotel on Saadoun Street, according to the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
- Kittleson, an American citizen based in Rome, has reported extensively from war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria; the Trump administration previously advised against travel to Iraq due to known threats.
- Police sources reported that four men in civilian clothes forcibly removed the journalist, prompting a vehicle pursuit where authorities intercepted a suspect vehicle that overturned during the chase.
- One suspect has been arrested in connection with the abduction, but the journalist's whereabouts remain unknown as security forces continue searching the eastern part of the capital.
- This incident recalls the 2023 abduction of a Princeton University student held by the pro-Iranian militia Kataib Hezbollah for 903 days, as Iraqi authorities continue efforts to secure the journalist's safe release.
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A U.S. journalist was kidnapped today in Baghdad and Iraqi security forces are looking for her captors, officials in Iraq reported. Iraq’s Ministry of the Interior stated in a statement that a foreign journalist was kidnapped, without giving more details. Two Iraqi security officials, who spoke anonymously because they were not allowed to speak publicly about the case, pointed out that the kidnapped journalist was a U.S. woman. They indicated th…
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