Rebel fighters stand at an entrance of the Aleppo headquarters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern city of Aleppo

A Journalist Goes Undercover with ISIS

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 27, 2015

French journalist Anna Erelle discusses investigating the recruitment channels of ISIS. Erelle disguised her identity and met Bilel, a French-born, high-ranking militant for the Islamic State in Syria, through Facebook. Bilel urged her to come to Syria and marry him. She headed to the Middle East to continue her investigation, but things did not go as planned. Erelle's new book is In the Skin of a Jihadist: A Young Journalist Enters the ISIS Recruitment Network.

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