Matthew Schrier Knihy

Photographer captured in Syria and imprisoned for seven months recounts his story and how he became the first American ever to escape Al Qaeda.

In 2012, photographer Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria. Just 45 minutes from the safety of the Turkish border, he was taken prisoner by the al Nusra Front - the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda. Over the next seven months he would endure torture and near starvation in six brutal terrorist prisons. Hed face a daily struggle just to survive. And, eventually, hed escape.