Combatants linked to al Qaeda kidnapped a Spanish journalist and a photographer in a rebel-held eastern Syrian metropolis in September, El Mundo newspaper pronounced on Tuesday. Journalist Javier Espinosa and photographer Ricardo Garcia were taken via rebel crew the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on September sixteen at a checkpoint in Raqqa, which fell to militant Islamist brigades in March, the paper pronounced. Espinosa, a journalist for the newspaper, and freelance photographer Garcia had been just a few kilometers from the border with Turkey and had been seeking to go away Syria on the time.