AMERICAN reporter Jill Carroll, who was kidnapped three months ago in an ambush that killed her translator, was released from captivity yesterday and said she had not been harmed.

Iraq police and the leader of the Islamic Party today reported that kidnapped US reporter Jill Carroll has been released after nearly three months in captivity.

The family of American journalist Jill Carroll issued another public appeal for her release today, a week before a deadline set by her Iraqi kidnappers for their demands to be met or they will kill her.

US journalist Jill Carroll, kidnapped in Iraq a month ago, pleaded with authorities to meet her captors’ demands quickly in a video aired on Kuwaiti television, saying “there is a very short time”.

THE family of an American reporter abducted in Baghdad appealed for mercy after her captors threatened to kill her if US authorities don’t release all Iraqi women in military custody by tomorrow.