This is the shocking moment an award winning American journalist is grabbed on the streets of Baghdad and kidnapped.
The search is on for American journalist Shelly Kittleson who was last seen being confronted by armed men before being bundled into a car on Tuesday evening.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry has confirmed that a ‘foreign journalist was kidnapped by unknown individuals’ in the country’s capital of Baghdad, adding that security forces are going after the perpetrators.
The ministry said one suspected kidnapper was arrested while trying to escape.
But ‘efforts are ongoing to track down others involved and free the abducted person’.
Shelly Kittleson is known for her on the ground reporting of war zones in Syria and Afghanistan but has been based in Iraq recently.
She has filed reports on women’s rights in Iraq since the US invasion and the rise of militias, political factions, how the country is trying to rebuild.
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