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Three American citizens kidnapped on January 16 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad were released on Tuesday."The three Americans were released in an area near Yousifiya, south of Baghdad," an official in Iraqi's interior minister's office, told Reuters.They are currently being flown to an American military base in Germany for "personal recovery protocols" and are all reportedly "fine" bar some "bumps and bruises you'd expect," a US military official, told NBC News.They were kidnapped from their apartment in Baghdad on January 16. They were believed to have been kidnapped by a Shiite militia backed by Iran. However, as of writing it is still unclear who the kidnappers were.The Americans worked for a small company which was doing work for the General Dynamics Corp.The US embassy hasn't made any comment on their release.