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ELI5: How does ISIS keep finding Westerners to hold hostage? Why do Westerners keep going to areas where they know there is a risk of capture?

The Syria-Iraq region has been a hotbed of kidnappings of Westerners for a few years already. Why do people from Western countries keep going to the region while they know that there is an extremely high chance they will be captured by one of the radical islamist groups there?

EDIT: Thanks for all the answers guys. From what I understood, journalists from the major networks (US) don't generally go to ISIS controlled areas, but military and intelligence units do make sense.
gpt
They are usually journalists, documenting wars, coups, and disasters. The only way first world nations get involved in these issues is if someone makes people give a shit about the people there. The only way to do that is to print stories in the media until people notice and complain, which makes politicians give a shit.

The journalists go over and report the stories that make people give a shit about the awful things that happen there, in the hopes of forcing politicians to give a shit which might make a difference.

They are often subjected to the awful things they are documenting.