By David Mccormack
DailyMail UK
17 December 2012

NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, one of the most prominent and accomplished international correspondents in the world, is reportedly missing in Syria.

Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports that Engel, together with Turkish journalist Aziz Akyavaş, were last known to be in Syria and haven't been in contact with NBC News since Thursday morning.

While the Turkish media have been circulating the report for several days, American outlets had been operating under a news blackout requested by NBC until today.

NBC colleague David Schuster is amongst those to have tweeted their concern about the missing journalist and author.

Engels, who is divorced and doesn't have children, was promoted to NBC News's chief foreign correspondent in 2008. He runs NBC’s Middle East bureau and has been reporting on the ongoing conflict between rebels and forces backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

He last reported from inside Syria on December 11. He is also known as a regular Twitter user, but hasn’t tweeted since Dec 1.

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Engel has lived in the Middle East since graduating from Stanford University in 1996 with a B.A. in international relations. He speaks and reads fluent Arabic, which he learned while living in Cairo.

Engel has also traveled extensively in the Middle East and can comfortably transition between several Arabic dialects spoken across the Arab world. He is also fluent in Italian and Spanish.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...a-Thursday.html

This doesn't predict well. I loathe NBC and their liberal views & marxist agenda, but I do not wish to learn of what I fear may be the case.

It is a shame we have to get our news from the UK. Prayers sent up for a good outcome.

Yeah, I've noticed that more and more often: UK reporting on US news.

Good news!!

Richard Engel of NBC Is Released in Syria

Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, and three of his crew members were freed on Monday after five days in captivity in Syria, the news organization said Tuesday.

The journalists were unharmed. The news organization released a short statement that said, "We are pleased to report they are safely out of the country."

The identities of the kidnappers and their motives were unknown. But their kidnapping once again highlights the perils of reporting from Syria, which is said by the Committee to Protect Journalists to be "the world’s most dangerous place for the press."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/19/busine...syria.html?_r=0

Good to hear they are released. Even though I usually am not a fan of his reports that I hear on the radio from time to time, I'm happy that he (and crew) wasn't killed.

The story has a good deal of confusion that goes along with it. Why? Why'd they do it?

The whole arab/muslim world is burning our fingers right now.

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Good to hear they are released. Even though I usually am not a fan of his reports that I hear on the radio from time to time, I'm happy that he (and crew) wasn't killed.

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Yes, glad he is released!