Iran-backed Shia militias in Iraq have allegedly relocated Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov from Baghdad. With her whereabouts now outside the capital, her family’s plea, amplified through sponsored Facebook ads, urged the captors to open communication channels to discern their demands. Tsurkov, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Princeton University and a researcher at the Forum for Regional Thinking in Israel and the Newlines Institute in Washington, is believed to have been abducted in Baghdad by Kataeb Hezbollah last March. The Iraqi authorities official…