A flag of the Kataib Hezbollah militia group was hoisted outside the American Embassy in Baghdad in 2019 during a protest to condemn airstrikes on their bases.
A flag of the Kataib Hezbollah militia group was hoisted outside the American Embassy in Baghdad in 2019 during a protest to condemn airstrikes on their bases.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli Russian doctoral student at Princeton University, endured two and a half years of captivity in Iraq, held in solitary confinement by a militia backed by Iran.
The visit by the envoy, Morgan Ortagus, coincided with a spike in Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in recent weeks that has stoked fears of a renewed conflict.
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