Elizabeth Tsurkov, Princeton Student, Is Released From Iraq, Trump SaysIsrael 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: Elizabeth Tsurkov, Princeton Student, Is Released From Iraq, Trump Says (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/world/middleeast/elizabeth-tsurkov-hostage-released-iraq.html)