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Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli researcher, has been released after 903 days in captivity in Baghdad, ending a complex ...
Iraq appears to want to wring concessions for having freed her. It took 900 days, but authorities in Baghdad are making it ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the release of Israeli-Russian ...
Tsurkov, who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, spent more than 900 days in custody after disappearing in Baghdad as she ...
Donald Trump used her release, which the United States brokered, to press Hamas to release its Israeli hostages.
Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov arrived in Israel on Monday, a day after she was released more than two years ...
In the first week of September 2025, Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah concluded it had no option but to release Israeli-Russian ...
Kata'ib Hezbollah, the Iraqi-based terrorist organization that held Russian-Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov captive for ...
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq nearly two years ago while doing ...
President Trump and the Iraqi government on Tuesday announced that Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian citizen, U.S.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton graduate student held hostage in Iraq, has been freed by the Iranian militia Kataib Hezbollah, ...
Elizabeth Tsurkov was taken hostage in Baghdad on March 21, 2023, while doing research for her doctorate about sectarianism ...