Iraq, American journalist Shelly Kittleson released: the announcement

“Recognizing the national positions of the outgoing prime minister, we have decided to release the American defendant Shelly Kittleson, on the condition that she leaves the country immediately,” Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, a security official for Kataeb Hezbollah, said in a brief statement, announcing the reporter’s release.

Kittleson, kidnapped on March 31st in Baghadad, near the Palestine Hotel, has worked in the Iraqi capital for years and writes for various US and Italian media outlets, including Al-Monitor, The National, Foreign Policy and Il Foglio for which she wrote the article ‘The price of Kurdish neutrality. Attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan’.