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My Harrowing Kidnapping Ordeal in Syria

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Balint Szlanko on what it was like being kidnapped in Syria.

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I had arrived in Syria only a few days before, from Turkey, through a rebel-controlled border crossing. I thought I knew what to expect: I had visited Aleppo many times before and knew that the focus of the fighting

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