American journalist abducted in Iraq, security officials say.

By ERIKA SOLOMON, FALIH HASSAN and PRANAV BASKAR A U.S. journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad by “unknown individuals” Tuesday evening, and government security forces have begun operations to find her and track down the abductors, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. The freelance journalist was identified as Shelly Kittleson by two Iraqi security officials. She has worked for various news organizations, and one of them, Al-Monitor news outlet, for which Kittleson is a contributor, called for...

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