India, March 31 -- Shelly Kittleson, an American journalist, was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, as per reports. The Iraqi interior ministry acknowledged that a foreign journalist had been kidnapped.

"The Ministry of Interior announces that this evening, a foreign journalist was subjected to a kidnapping incident by unidentified individuals," the translated statement on X reads.

The journalist was identified as Kittleson in a report by Al Hadath, the Saudi Arabian state-owned news organization.

"Armed men kidnap American journalist Shelley Kittleson from central Baghdad." they shared. Akeed Press, an Iraqi news outlet, reported that armed men dressed in black took Kittleson from near Palestine Hotel on Saadoun Street, in central...