{"id":56393,"date":"2026-04-07T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/56393\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:42:52","slug":"pro-iran-group-says-will-release-us-journalist-kidnapped-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/56393\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Iran group says will release US journalist kidnapped in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u2060Iraqi armed group \u2060Kataib Hezbollah, which is aligned with Iran, said on Tuesday it would release abducted US journalist Shelly Kittleson, adding that she must leave Iraq immediately.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kittleson \u200cwas abducted in late March in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Middle East news site Al-Monitor said Kittleson was a US freelance journalist based in Rome who had covered several wars in the region and had contributed articles to \u2060the outlet.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A video purporting to show Kittleson was shared \u200cby a social media outlet close to Kataib Hezbollah on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The corner on Baghdad\u2019s Saadoun Street where Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped is seen on April 1. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/96528bf0-1e15-414b-9fd1-0ced02c00744_8e875f64.jpg\" title=\"The corner on Baghdad\u2019s Saadoun Street where Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped is seen on April 1. Photo: AP\"\/>The corner on Baghdad\u2019s Saadoun Street where Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped is seen on April 1. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reuters could not independently \u200cverify the authenticity of the video, which if confirmed \u2060would be \u2060the first images of Kittleson published since her kidnapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2060Iraqi armed group \u2060Kataib Hezbollah, which is aligned with Iran, said on Tuesday it would release abducted US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17146,1711,13833,34,94,3038,3272,37,363,49,17757,351,22088,18830,1590,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-56393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-al-monitor","9":"tag-baghdad","10":"tag-english","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-iraqi","14":"tag-iraqi-government","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-kataib-hezbollah","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-princeton-university","19":"tag-reuters","20":"tag-rome","21":"tag-shelly-kittleson","22":"tag-shiite","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116365374702429444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56393","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=56393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}