American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released week after kidnapping in Iraq, Rubio says

American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released week after kidnapping in Iraq, Rubio says

American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released week after kidnapping in Iraq, Rubio says

2026-04-08 13:33:56

The importance of American journalist Shelley Kittleson has been released 
we week after kidnapping in Iraq, Rubio says.

American journalist Shelley Kittleson, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad str
streetcorner last week, was released Tuesday, U.S. and Iraqi officials said
said.

The development came after the powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib He
Hezbollah said in a statement that it had decided to free Kittleson, who wa
was abducted on March 31. Its condition was that Kittleson must leave the 
country immediately upon her release.

Two officials within the militia, who spoke on condition of anonymity becau
because they were not authorized to comment publicly, told The Associated P
Press that in exchange for freeing Kittleson, several members of the group 
who had previously been detained by Iraqi authorities would be released.


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