Journalist who offered to be suicide bomber sheds light on Isis
‘Bild’ reporter penetrates recruitment arm of Islamic State with undercover online identity
A fighter with the Christian Syriac militia, which battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the western side of Raqqa. Photograph: Hussein Malla
It seemed too odd to be true: a German man called Markus Nowotny contacted the Islamic State terror group online, offering to be a suicide bomber.