Syria
Just before the American journalist was abducted in Syria, his fixer’s identity may have been compromised.
Ben Taub is a journalist and philosophy student at Princeton University, and a member of the Frontline Freelance Register. He spent seven weeks in Kilis this summer doing research for a book on unusual people and happenings on the fringe of war. Prior work has appeared in The Guardian, CNN, and Vice UK.
Just before the American journalist was abducted in Syria, his fixer’s identity may have been compromised.
Syria’s conflict is drawing a motley crew of adventure-seekers and adrenaline with murky motivations—and little experience with surviving in war zones.