T/iraq

  1. Princeton Student Held by Iran-Backed Militia Is Released, Trump Says World, September 9

    Israel and Iraq confirmed the release of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student at Princeton who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 by the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.

  2. Would You Believe This Spy’s Name? Opinion, August 23

    Spy fiction thrives on vermismilitude — shy are so many writers so incompetent when it comes to naming foriegn characters?

  3. Battling Power Outages and Heat Wave, Iran Orders More Shutdowns World, August 22

    Amid suffocating temperatures, the Iranian authorities are closing public offices and cutting water and electricity as the country struggles with an energy crisis.

  4. Your Friday Briefing: Russia Doubles Down N Y T Now, May 5

    Moscow wants victories before its Monday holiday.