{"id":459035,"date":"2026-04-07T20:35:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/?p=459035"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:35:41","slug":"kataib-hezbollah-in-iraq-announced-on-tuesday-that-it-will-release-the-kidnapped-american-journalist-shelly-kittleson-adding-that-she-must-leave-iraq-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/?p=459035","title":{"rendered":"Kata&#8217;ib Hezbollah in Iraq announced on Tuesday that it will release the kidnapped American journalist Shelly Kittleson, adding that she must leave Iraq immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East News Network reported that Kittleson had been abducted in late March in Baghdad.<br \/>\nThe specialized Middle East news website Al-Monitor stated that Kittleson is an independent American journalist based in Rome. She has covered several wars in the region and has contributed articles to the site.<br \/>\nSource: Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East News Network reported that Kittleson had been abducted in late March in Baghdad. The specialized Middle East news website Al-Monitor stated that Kittleson is an independent American journalist based in Rome. She has covered several wars in the region and has contributed articles to the site. Source: Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":459036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[656],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-news-in-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e3DQiTIySIOxuJnWI8HrKNI6JmoFT6yvnGwq0hwg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459037,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459035\/revisions\/459037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/459036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mennews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}