Iraq’s Emboldened Terror Groups

Shelly Kittleson, an American journalist, was kidnapped off the streets of Baghdad on March 31 and is now a bargaining chip for the militia that took her. It’s a tragedy on replay. Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terror group in Iraq, had previously held Princeton PhD candidate and Russian-Israeli citizen Elizabeth Tsurkov, for more than 900 days, until her release in September 2025.