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American journalist Shelly Kittleson is being released a week after she was kidnapped in Baghdad, an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq said Tuesday. A spokesperson for the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia said in a post on the group’s Telegram messaging app channel that Kittleson was being released on the condition that she leave Iraq immediately. Her whereabouts … Read more
When 36-year-old Princeton University graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Iraq, it set off a grueling 903-day fight her sister never expected. “I honestly was so naive when she was kidnapped. I had no idea what it would take,” Elizabeth’s sister, Emma, told “CBS Sunday Morning.” In March 2023, Elizabeth — an Israeli Russian … Read more
The U.S. Embassy in Iraq has warned Americans to leave the country as soon as possible over threats from militias aligned with Iran to carry out imminent attacks in Baghdad over the next two days. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “U.S. citizens should leave Iraq … Read more
An American journalist was kidnapped in Iraq on Tuesday by suspected Iranian-backed militants, according to the State Department and the country’s Interior Ministry. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The journalist was identified in the hours after her kidnapping came to light as freelancer Shelly Kittleson, … Read more
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American journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter as well as an Iraqi official. Iraq’s Interior Ministry announced that a foreign journalist was kidnapped by “unknown individuals” but did not identify the victim. The ministry said that security forces had managed to arrest one suspect … Read more
Phil Klay, a U.S. Marine veteran who fought in Iraq and is an English professor at Fairfield University, weighs in on the U.S. operation against Iran and the contradictions among members of the Trump administration on the conflict’s objectives. Source link
On March 20, 2003, a coalition of U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq, marking the start of the eponymous war. Watch the full “CBS Evening News” broadcast from that day. Source link
NATO has pulled several hundred personnel out of Iraq as the Iran war rages on, the alliance said in a statement Friday. The last of the personnel from the group, known as NATO Mission Iraq, left Iraq on Friday, the alliance said. The personnel come from NATO allies as well as from partner countries Austria … Read more