Jane Araf

The Al-Monitor news organization identified the journalist as American Shelley Kittleson, who has contributed to their publication.

Iraqi security forces said they intercepted one of the kidnappers' vehicles, which crashed, and have arrested one of the suspects.

They said they are still searching for the kidnapped journalist.

Kittleson is a Rome-based freelance journalist who has covered Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan for years.

U.S.

Embassy has advised Americans to leave Iraq, partly due to kidnapping threats by Iran-backed militias.

Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman.

Pakistan's prime minister says he and the Iranian president have held what he calls extensive discussions that are aimed at ending this war.

The U.S.

hasn't been doing quite so well, it seems.

President Trump said that talks were going very well and that he had given Tehran till April 6th to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

But Iran says it has not been negotiating.

It has not engaged in negotiations with the U.S.

One of them was a correspondent for Hezbollah's television channel who has been reporting from the south for almost 30 years.

Israel claimed without evidence he was a Hezbollah operative, in fact, a member of one of their elite forces.

But the actions that Israel described, identifying where Israeli forces were and contacts with Hezbollah, are actually normal journalistic practices.

Israel didn't comment on the other two journalists killed with him.

The drone strike killed correspondents Ali Shoaib and Fatima Ftoumi, along with cameraman Mohamed Ftoumi, in a strike on their vehicle in South Lebanon, their organization said.

Shoaib had covered South Lebanon for Hezbollah's Al-Manar television for almost 30 years.

Ftouni was a correspondent for Al Mayadeen TV, who had been reporting live earlier Saturday.