Elizabeth Tsurkov, the Russian-Israeli researcher who was held captive for more than two years in Iraq, has said her ordeal highlights the continuing influence of the country's militias and Baghdad's inability to control them.
The research fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, and Princeton University doctoral candidate, was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023 by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Shiite militia. She was held in two different centres for 903 days, including at a secret prison where she was repeatedly tortured and forced to make false confessions about being a spy.
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