American journalist Jill Carroll was freed in Iraq on Thursday, nearly three months after being kidnapped in Baghdad, her newspaper said.
US journalist Jill Carroll. Photo: REUTERS/Delphine Minoui/Handout
Iraqi politicians and officials said the correspondent for the Christian Science Monitorwas delivered some hours earlier to the office of a Sunni Arab political party in a district of the capital that is a stronghold for Sunni Arab insurgents.
She was in good health and is now in the Green Zone government and diplomatic compound, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source said.
The US embassy and military declined comment.
The release of the 28-year-old correspondent, whose Iraqi translator was killed during her January 7 thabduction on a Baghdad street, came a week after three Christian peace activists were rescued by special forces after four months in captivity.
At that time, military officials in Baghdad said the hunt for Carroll and other foreign hostages was continuing.
An official at the Iraqi Islamic Party said the journalist was delivered to its office in Amriya district, a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold in Baghdad.
Thousands of Iraqis have been kidnapped in the past three years, many for ransom.
More than 200 foreigners have also been taken prisoner. Many have been freed but others have been killed by militant groups making political demands.
Two German and two Kenyan engineers are among those still held.