Anonymous3 days ago
American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson was abducted in central Baghdad on March 31, 2026, despite repeated U.S. government warnings about threats from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia. The kidnapping occurred against a backdrop of escalating U.S.-Iran military tensions, a cascade of U.S. Embassy security alerts throughout March, and a long pattern of impunity for attacks on journalists in Iraq — raising questions about whether foreign press coverage of the country is becoming structurally unsustainable.