BREAKING NEWS

NBC news team freed in Syria after firefight

An NBC news team, including chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, was freed in Syria on Monday after an Islamist rebel group killed two of their kidnappers at a checkpoint, the network reported on its website on Tuesday.
The team, which later spoke live on the network, were held captive by an unidentified group for five days.
Engel, 39, along with other employees the network did not identify, disappeared shortly after crossing into northwestern Syria from Turkey on Thursday. The network had not been able to contact them until they were freed.
"It was a very traumatic experience," Engel said on NBC's "Today" program.