Wall Street Journal Reporter Leaves Baghdad After Security Warning Over Threat to His Team

Jared Malsin, a reporter for the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, said he left the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, after spending two days there, following security warnings from Iraqi officials regarding a threat targeting his reporting team.

In a post on X, Malsin said U.S. officials later told him that the Iraqi warning was linked to a reported plan by an armed faction to kidnap him. He did not identify the group involved.

The information provided in the journalist’s post did not indicate that an actual kidnapping attempt had taken place, and no further details were given about the nature of the threat or the group allegedly behind it.