NBC News team kidnapping in Syria
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nbc-news-team-kidnapping-in-syria-248-1927170
title:
NBC News team kidnapping in Syria
text:
The NBC News Team kidnapping in Syria took place in late 2012 in the midst of the Syrian Civil War, when US journalist Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent of NBC News, with his five-member reporting crew were abducted by armed militants. Taken hostage on 13 December 2012 near the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing when crossing into Syria, Richard Engel and his crew members – Aziz Akyavaş, Ghazi Balkiz, John Kooistra, Ian Rivers and Ammar Cheikh Omar –
were detained in the vicinity of Ma'arrat M
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2012 event during the Syrian Civil War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_News_team_kidnapping_in_Syria
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2024-03-12T22:46:28Z
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