{"id":79583,"date":"2026-04-01T11:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kalopati.com\/?p=79583"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:45:11","slug":"u-s-journalist-kidnapped-in-iraqi-capital-baghdad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/79583","title":{"rendered":"U.S. journalist kidnapped in Iraqi capital Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. An American journalist has been kidnapped in Iraq&#8217;s capital Baghdad. <\/p>\n<p>Iraqi and U.S. officials believe he was kidnapped by Iran-backed militias. American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped on Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi Interior Ministry has arrested a man as he pursued the hijackers. <\/p>\n<p>The hijackers belong to the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia. In recent years, Iraq&#8217;s Islamist militias have also been attacking US bases in favor of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. An American journalist has been kidnapped in Iraq&#8217;s capital Baghdad. Iraqi and U.S. officials believe he was kidnapped by Iran-backed militias. American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped on Tuesday evening. The Iraqi Interior Ministry has arrested a man as he pursued the hijackers. The hijackers belong to the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia. In<a href=\"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/news\/79583\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;U.S. journalist kidnapped in Iraqi capital Baghdad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":79574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"publishedDateNp":"\u0967\u096e \u091a\u0948\u0924\u094d\u0930 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0968, \u092c\u0941\u0927\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0967:\u0968\u096f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79584,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79583\/revisions\/79584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/79574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.kalopati.com\/kp_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}