Q&A: German Journalist on Surviving ISIL

By: Hester Maria Greyvenstein | Al Jazeera

German journalist Jurgen Todenhofer, 74, embedded with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and spent 10 days in Mosul in northern Iraq with its fighters.

Todenhofer is the first western reporter to do so and live to tell about it. ISIL has vowed to kill anyone who does not convert to Islam and has not welcomed foreign journalists. So how did Todenhofer survive travelling through ISIL-controlled areas?