NBC News has changed its story about the 2012 kidnapping of chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel in Syria after reporting by The New York Times called his account into question. Engel had said he was captured by Shiite forces loyal to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. But after the Times found Engel was likely captured by Sunni militants affiliated with the opposition Free Syrian Army, Engel said the kidnappers were Sunni, but had “put on an elaborate ruse to convince us they were Shiite Shabiha militiamen.”