NBC correspondent Richard Engel and crew freed in Syria after kidnapping ordeal
Richard Engel — NBC News' chief foreign correspondent — is alive and well but just barely after being held hostage by masked gunmen in Syria…
"It was a lot of psychological torture, threats of being killed," the journalist said of his five days in captivity.
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and two members of his production team are free after five days of being held captive in Syria. The network says Engel and his colleagues were traveling with rebels in Syria last Thursday when they
BEIRUT — More than a dozen heavily armed pro-regime gunmen kidnapped NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and several colleagues for five days inside Syria, threatening them with mock executions and keeping them bound and blindfolded
NEW YORK — Richard Engel, NBC's chief foreign correspondent, was freed Monday from capture in Syria following a firefight, five days after being kidnapped.






