President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced Princeton University student Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released by Hezbollah, an Islamist militant organization.

Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli dual citizen who identifies as Jewish, was “just released” by Kata’ib Hezbollah, and is now safe inside the American Embassy in Iraq, the president wrote in a Truth Social post.

She was abducted at a café in Baghdad’s Karrada district in 2023 while conducting academic research for her dissertation, and was allegedly tortured over the span of months.

In this Sept., 2018 selfie image provided by Emma Tsurkov, right, she and Elizabeth Tsurkov are shown in Santa Clara Valley, Calif. AP

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Was

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