London: In the first week of September 2025, Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah concluded it had no option but to release Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov even if it meant surrendering a valuable ...

Tsurkov, who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, spent more than 900 days in custody after disappearing in Baghdad as she ...

The Army's newest officers pinned on gold bars at Fort Benning, Georgia, Sept. 4, as Officer Candidate School Class 501-25 ...

Much of Iraq’s modern art vanished after the U.S. invaded. A show of Baghdad’s 20th-century modernists helps fill in the ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov was taken hostage in Baghdad on March 21, 2023, while doing research for her doctorate about sectarianism ...

NPR has tapped Thomas Evans — widely called Tommy — a veteran of CNN's international coverage who reported on conflicts for more than two decades. He arrived at NPR a year ago to launch its editorial ...

The air in Iraq is thick these days with political anticipation. On Nov. 11, 2025, Iraqis will head to the polls — for the ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov, Princeton Graduate Student, has been released after 903 days of imprisonment by Shiite militia group ...

Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov arrived in Israel on Monday, a day after she was released more than two years ...

Princeton researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped by Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah in March 2023 and holds ...

Donald Trump used her release, which the United States brokered, to press Hamas to release its Israeli hostages.