From Israeli-Russian graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov who was kidnapped in Iraq has been freed, Trump says
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Elizabeth Tsurkov in an undated photo (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
US President Donald Trump announces that Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Israeli-Russian researcher who was taken hostage in Iraq two years ago, has been freed.
“I am pleased to report that Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton Student, whose sister is an American Citizen, was just released by Kata’ib Hezbollah (MILITANT Hezbollah), and is now safely in the American Embassy in Iraq after being tortured for many months,” Trump posts on Truth Social.
“I will always fight for JUSTICE, and never give up. HAMAS, RELEASE THE HOSTAGES, NOW!”
Tsurkov, who likely entered Iraq on her Russian passport, had traveled to Iraq as part of her doctoral studies at Princeton after previously traveling to the country and other Arab countries in the region.
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