As a Marine Captain in Iraq, Elliot Ackerman lost men fighting jihadis, but then he found himself breaking bread with a former adversary in a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey.
In 2013, at the height of the Syrian Civil War, Elliot Ackerman traveled to a refugee camp along the Turkish-Syrian border as a correspondent for The Daily Beast to meet with a former member of al-Qaeda, against whom he’d fought as a Marine a decade before in Iraq.
