One of CNN's most prominent correspondents shared her harrowing experience she and her crew faced after being held captive by a militia group while in war-torn Sudan.

CNN reporter Clarissa Ward has opened up about the 48 hours she and her team were held captive in North Darfur, describing a "clawing sense of panic" as a rival militia interrogated them for hours in an open-air setting.

A team of CNN journalists, including chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, was recently detained by a militia for 48 hours while on a reporting trip in the Darfur region of Sudan. Ward recounted her team’s harrowing experience in a first-person essay for CNN on Wednesday.

CNN ‘s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were held captive earlier this month by a militia in North Darfur, detained for about 48 hours before they were freed.

Chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward recounted her team’s experience in a first-person account published Wednesday.

CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward revealed that she and her team were held captive by a militia for two days while reporting in Darfur earlier this month. The 44-year-old veteran war correspondent traveled to Sudan to report on the civil war,

A CNN reporter revealed that she and her crew taken captive in Sudan in a terrifying, two-day ordeal as they were reporting on the humanitarian crisis during the civil war in the region. Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward,

In a shocking revelation, CNN’s Clarissa Ward has recounted the terrifying ordeal where she and her team were held captive by a militia in Darfur for two days while reporting on Sudan’s brutal civil war.