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US should use its influence to help win the freedom of a scholar missing in Iraq, her sister says

Iraq Israel Missing AcademicIn this Sept., 2018 selfie image provided by Emma Tsurkov, right, she and Elizabeth Tsurkov are shown in Santa Clara Valley, Calif. Emma Tsurkov, the sister of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli academic at Princeton University who went missing in Iraq nearly six months ago, says the U.S. government and other nations must do more to work to bring her home. (AP Photo/Eric Tucker)
September 13, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States should use its influence to help win the freedom of a Russian-Israeli academic at Princeton University who went missing in Iraq nearly six months ago and is believed to be held by an Iran-backed militia regarded by Washington as a terrorist group, her sister said Wednesday.

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