3 Americans Missing in Iraq ‘Back Under US Control'

Three Americans held in Iraq for nearly one month were en route to Germany after having been released with just the "bumps and bruises you'd expect," a U.S. military official told NBC News on Tuesday.

The State Department said the Iraqi government was responsible for securing the release of the trio, who were reported missing on Jan. 16.

A senior Iraqi security official told NBC News on condition of anonymity that the Iraqi intelligence service had "liberated" the Americans.

Iraqi authorities had said the three were kidnapped from a "suspicious apartment" in the mixed Shia-Sunni neighborhood of Dora, The Associated Press reported.

They were being taken to the U.S. facility in Landstuhl.

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