By Christian Martinez

(Reuters) -An Israeli-Russian graduate student from Princeton University who was kidnapped by a Shiite militia in Iraq in 2023 has been released from captivity and is now in U.S. custody, President Donald Trump and the student’s family said on Tuesday.

Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped by the militia Kataib Hezbollah during a research trip to Iraq in March 2023, according to officials.

Trump said in a post on social media that Tsurkov “is now safely in the American Embassy in Iraq after being tortured for many months.”

Global Reach, a nonprofit that works for the release of Americans held in captivity abroad, said in a statement that Tsurkov had received a medical assessment at the embassy.

Emma Tsurkov, one of Elizabeth’s sisters, said in the statement her family

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