Israeli-Russian Graduate Student Kidnapped in Iraq Has Been Released, Trump and Family Say
George Mihalcea
WASHINGTON — A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 while doing research there has been freed and turned over to U.S. authorities, her family and President Donald Trump said Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov, who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, spent more than 900 days in custody after disappearing in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, as she was pursuing a doctorate focused on sectarianism in the region. She was turned over to the American Embassy in Baghdad after
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