US EditionKataib Hezbollah Believes Russian-Israeli Researcher Tsurkov Started Becoming Liability as Hostage
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No deal behind academic Elizabeth Tsurkov’s release in Iraq
Sources close to the Iraqi government told AFP on Friday that no deal was made to secure the release of Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov this week, saying her abductors had instead bowed to unspecified "pressure". Kidnapped in Baghdad in March of 2023, Tsurkov was set free late Tuesday, hours after Israel carried out an unprecedented strike in Qatar targeting Hamas leaders. She was handed over to the US embassy in Iraq, then flown the …
In a video, we see the ex-hostage smiling but walking hard in a hospital corridor before finding relatives and hugging them.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Israeli researcher who was kidnapped in Iraq in March 2023, has been released after two and a half years of captivity by the Shiite "Hezbollah Brigades." According to a report in the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, in early September, the militia members made a dramatic decision: to get rid of her quickly, even if it was a losing move for them. The decision was born under continuous pressure from the Iraqi government and the U…
The Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper publishes new details about the last moments of Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov in captivity in Iraq and the secret negotiations that led to her release without any compensation.
According to a Saudi report, the militia that held Tsurkov decided to release her following joint pressure from the US and Iraq - and not as a result of a deal • Iraqi and Hezbollah officials claimed that the release was included in broader negotiations, but senior sources denied that an actual deal had taken place
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