Elizabeth Tsurkov has been held in Iraq for over 860 days after being kidnapped by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a 38-year-old graduate student at Princeton University was kidnapped in 2023 while doing research in Iraq, and officials from several countries say progress is being made to ...

Back in March 2023, Emma Tsurkov texted to her sister a photo of her infant son wiggling his toes. Elizabeth Tsurkov was working at Baghdad on her Ph.D. thesis for Princeton. “Elizabeth is obsessed ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov is the oldest of the four children of Arkada and Ira Tsurkov, Soviet dissidents who spent a year in prison with Natan Sharansky. Lauren Markoe is news editor of the Forward.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, who is believed to be held by a pro-Iranian Shiite militia, was shown in an unauthenticated video speaking about the Israeli hostages held in Gaza. By Alissa J. Rubin An Iraqi ...

Tsurkov’s case caught the attention of Congress last fall when Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) wrote to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in September to “urge the ...

Elizabeth Tsurkov, 36 — an Israeli-Russian citizen studying political science at the New Jersey-based Ivy League institution — was seized in March by members of the Shiite group Kataeb ...

But Tsurkov understands their eyes in a way most of us never could, because she has spent the last 22 months toiling to secure the release of another Israeli hostage — her sister, Elizabeth, who ...

The family of the scholar – Elizabeth Tsurkov, who also holds Russian citizenship – is trying to remain optimistic. Even though the circumstances are completely different, the release of ...

A new statement released by the University states, for the first time, that the kidnapping of doctoral candidate Elizabeth Tsurkov GS in Iraq last March occurred during travel related to research for ...

Elizabeth has been a U.S. resident since starting a master’s program at University of Chicago in 2017. Her parents, Arkada and Ira Tsurkov, were Soviet dissidents who spent a year in prison with ...

Supporters of Elizabeth Tsurkov, an academic kidnapped in Iraq a year ago, held a rally at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, Mar. 21, 2024. Her sister Emma is standing center, with glasses.