Award-winning American journalist Shelley Kittleson was kidnapped in Iraq on March 31, according to multiple news outlets, and the country's foreign ministry has launched an investigation.
A State Department official said the United States was aware of the reported kidnapping of an American journalist in Baghdad, adding that Washington had issued a warning.
"The State Department previously fulfilled our duty to warn this individual of threats against them and we will continue to coordinate with the FBI to ensure their release as quickly as possible," Dylan Johnson, assistant secretary of state for global public affairs, said on X. He did not refer to Kittleson by name.
Here's what we know about the international writer.
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