{"id":251379,"date":"2026-04-08T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=251379"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:16:37","slug":"american-journalist-kidnapped-in-iraq-released-rubio-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/251379\/","title":{"rendered":"American journalist kidnapped in Iraq released, Rubio says"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>An American journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq has been released, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am pleased to announce the release of American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was recently abducted by members of the foreign terrorist organization Kata&rsquo;ib Hezbollah in Baghdad,&rdquo; Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the United States is now working to ensure Kittleson&rsquo;s safe evacuation from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The journalist was kidnapped in early April. Kittleson specializes in Middle East and Afghanistan affairs, and her work has been published in international, American, and Italian media outlets.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq has been released, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. &ldquo;I am pleased to announce the release of American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was recently abducted by members of the foreign terrorist organization Kata&rsquo;ib Hezbollah in Baghdad,&rdquo; Rubio said. He added that the United States is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":251203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251380,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251379\/revisions\/251380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}