She is being held by an Iran-backed militia group, Israel's prime minister says.
near Baghdad’s international airport in January 2020 along with Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force and the architect of its regional military alliances.
“We are deeply concerned for her safety and wellbeing and we are eager for her to be able to rejoin her family and resume her studies,” the statement read. She is a fellow at the Washington-based think tank New Lines Institute. Her colleague Hassan Hassan, editor in chief of New Lines Magazine, said co-workers were notified of her kidnapping in Iraq on March 29. Hassan told The Associated Press that some of her colleagues had been in touch with her just days before she went missing.
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