The Trump administration’s hostage envoy weighs in for the first time on the captivity of Princeton University researcher and Israeli-Russian national Elizabeth Tsurkov, warning the prime minister of Iraq — where she has been held hostage since 2023 by Iran-backed militia Kataeb Hezbollah — that he will be deemed complicit if she is not immediately released.
“Elizabeth Tsurkov is a Princeton student held hostage in Iraq!” Adam Boehler tweets, adding that Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani “consistently made false promises to the prior administration about releasing her.”
“BUT NOW [US President Donald Trump] IS ON TO YOU!” he adds, warning that if Tsurkov “does not come home NOW then [Sudani] is either incapable and should be FIRED or worse COMPLICIT.”