Foreign journalist kidnapped in Iraq: Interior Ministry

American freelance journalist Shelly Kittleson, was kidnapped in central Baghdad on Tuesday evening, according to Iraqi security sources to Iraqi media.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry confirmed that a foreign journalist was abducted by unidentified armed men in the heart of the city, near the Baghdad Hotel on al-Saadoun Street. Authorities said the attackers stopped her vehicle in a busy area, forcibly removed her, and fled the scene.