Journalist Theo Padnos traveled to Turkey in the fall of 2012 to report on the civil war in Syria. Instead of writing stories about the conflict, though, he was captured by the Free Syrian Army and ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on April 4, 2022. Find that audio here. In 2012, freelance journalist Theo Padnos was in a Turkish border town searching for a way into Syria to cover the ...

It was not long ago (on the calendar, at least) that either name could summon, if not profound discomfort, at least a hint of the queasiness that swept over Theo Padnos as he sat in front of a TV in ...

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As the U.S. mourned an American journalist beheaded by Islamic militants, the nation found something of a reprieve with the release of another freelance reporter who had been held hostage for nearly ...

There’s a kind of up-close war-zone journalism accomplished only by the few freelancers willing to go to the brink of what’s prudent. Indeed, Theo Padnos (who also reports as Peter Theo Curtis) blames ...

World leaders are condemning the brutal burning death of a Jordanian pilot by ISIS militants. News of such acts have particular resonance for Theo Padnos. The American journalist went to Yemen in 2004 ...

In October 2012, in the second year of the Syrian civil war, a 44-year-old freelance journalist named Theo Padnos crossed from Turkey into Syria with two young men he thought were his friends. Padnos ...

Theo Padnos is an American journalist who was kidnapped in Syria and held captive by the Al Nusra Front from 2012-2014. He is the author of Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment ...

For a year and a half (1999–2000), Padnos was a part-time instructor at Vermont's Woodstock Regional Correctional Facility, a jail for "inmates... waiting for sentences to be handed down, or for ...

In 2012, Theo Padnos was looking for a way into Syria to cover the civil war. The men who offered to help him were not who they said they were. In 'Blindfold,' Journalist Theo Padnos Recounts 2 Years ...

Curtis, under the Theo Padnos byline, has written for the New Republic and in 2011 wrote a book called “Undercover Muslim: A Journey Into Yemen,” which studied the radicalization of disaffected youths ...