Baghdad, May 24, 2025 (AFP) - Iraq seeks deal to swap kidnapped academic for jailed Iranian

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2025-05-24

Baghdad is working on a deal to free kidnapped Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov in exchange for an Iranian jailed in Iraq for murdering a US civilian, security sources said Saturday. The deal depends on US approval, the senior Iraqi security officials told AFP, asking to remain anonymous because the matter is considered sensitive. Tsurkov, a doctoral student at Princeton University, was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023. There was no c......

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