The U.S. State Department\u2019s Rewards for Justice program says it is offering up to $3 million for any information on attacks against U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq.<\/p>\n
\u201cU.S. Embassy Baghdad, U.S. Consulate General Erbil, and the Baghdad Diplomatic Support Center have been the targets of repeated attacks,\u201d the Rewards for Justice program\u00a0said on X. \u201cIf you have information on these attacks, send us your tip.\u201d<\/p>\n
The offer came shortly before the U.S. embassy in Baghdad warned that Iraqi militia groups aligned with Iran could \u201cintend to conduct attacks in central Baghdad in the next 24-48 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
That warning, posted on X around 3 a.m. ET Thursday, urged Americans to leave Iraq, saying terrorist militias have targeted Americans for kidnapping.<\/p>\n
American journalist\u00a0Shelly Kittleson\u00a0was kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter as well as an Iraqi official. Alex Plitsas, Kittleson\u2019s designated point of contact in the U.S. and a CNN national security analyst, said the U.S. government had warned Kittleson about a specific threat against her by the Iranian-backed paramilitary group Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah, which was allegedly looking to kidnap or kill female journalists.<\/p>\n
Dylan Johnson, an assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, said in a post on\u00a0X\u00a0that a person taken into custody by Iraqi authorities in connection with Kittleson\u2019s abduction had ties to Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. State Department\u2019s Rewards for Justice program says it is offering up to $3 million for any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3067,18806,34,94,49,19942,1987],"class_list":{"0":"post-48720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-attacks","9":"tag-intel","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-reward","14":"tag-us-state-department"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116336150651469734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}