Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent at NBC News, was a member of the six-member news team that was kidnapped in Syria in 2012. He has recounted the group's ordeal after information recently unearthed by the New York Times suggested that Engel had been wrong about the identity of their kidnappers.

Six members of an NBC News team were detained by 15 masked men carrying AK-47s in mid-December 2012. The journalists were bound, blindfolded and led into a waiting container truck, where they were stripped of all their belongings including their passports, money, equipment, belts and shoes.

None of the journalists were harmed by their abductors, but the kidnappers did shoot dead one of the rebels the journalists had been traveling with.

The kidnappers eventually brought the journalists to a farmhouse where they then removed the blindfolds and forced the journalists to film a video for them. As the kidnappers searched through the journalists' bags, they unwittingly set off the emergency GPS beacon, which broadcast the group's location. After receiving the data, NBC News was aware of the groups location and contacted sources in the Middle East for help.

Five days after the journalists were initially abducted, they were once again bound, blindfolded and led to a van.The kidnappers told the journalists they were being taken to a village in western Syria called Foua where they would be handed over to Syrian military forces. After driving for only a few minutes though, the vehicle reached a checkpoint where the kidnappers became embroiled in a gunfight with Syrian rebels. NBC News reports that according to the rebels, both of the abductors in the van were shot and killed.

During the gunfight, the journalists were able to climb through the van's driver's side and passenger windows. One journalist reported seeing a dead body near the wheel. Gunmen from the Syrian rebel group then freed the NBC crew and took the journalists with them before the group were flown back in