Israeli-Russian Princeton student Elizabeth Tsurkov freed from captivity in Iraq
President Donald Trump used her release, which the United States brokered, to press Hamas to release its Israeli hostages.
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Elizabeth Tsurkov has spent 682 days in captivity in Iraq. For her sister, Emma, watching the Gaza hostages go free brings a special kind of joy — and pain
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News As Evan Gershkovich returns home, another Jewish prisoner’s captivity reaches 500 days
The family of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton graduate student kidnapped in Iraq in 2023, has been told that she is still alive
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Opinion My tax dollars — and yours — are helping hold my sister hostage
The US is both fighting and funding a terror organization in Iraq
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Fast Forward In first sign of life since her March abduction, an Israeli-Russian academic appears in a video
Elizabeth Tsurkov spoke Hebrew in a video in which she claimed — apparently under coercion — to be a spy for the West
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Fast Forward Woman kidnapped in Iraq was doing research authorized by Princeton
University statement sought by sister of Elizabeth Tsurkov affirms that she was doing work approved for her Ph.D. when she was abducted in March
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Looking Forward What you do when your sister is being held by a terrorist cell in Iraq
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Fast Forward Israeli woman kidnapped by Iranian militia has opined extensively in the Forward
Elizabeth Tsurkov’s writings often focused on the dangers of Iranian influence across the Middle East
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