Israel and Iraq confirmed the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the militant group Kataib Hezbollah. Source link : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/world/middleeast/elizabeth-tsurkov-hostage-released-iraq.html Author : Ronen Bergman, Patrick Kingsley and Aaron Boxerman Publish date : 2025-09-09 21:22:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.









