BAGHDAD: An Israeli-Russian graduate student from Princeton University who was kidnapped by a Shiite militia in Iraq in 2023 has been released from captivity and is now in US custody, President Donald Trump and the student’s family said on Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped by the militia Kataib Hezbollah during a research trip to Iraq in March 2023, according to officials.

BAGHDAD: An Israeli-Russian graduate student from Princeton University who was kidnapped by a Shiite militia in Iraq in 2023 has been released from captivity and is now in US…

Elizabeth Tsurkov, who entered Iraq to do research for Princeton, had gone missing in Iraq in early 2023