Surviving hostage relates ordeal at British terror suspect’s US trial

(Alexandria Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Federico Motka’s abductors greeted him in English after he and his colleagues were kidnapped near a refugee camp on the Turkish border: “Welcome to Syria, you mutt”, a US court has heard.

For the Italian aid worker, it was the beginning of 14 months of brutality at the hands of the so-called Islamic State.