US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced in a post on his Truth Social platform that Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who had been kidnapped in Iraq, 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,” wrote Trump.