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The mother of slain American journalist James Foley said she wasn’t necessarily surprised that the U.S. government threatened her family with prosecution should they raise money to pay her son ...
John Foley felt a complicated set of emotions when he viewed the now infamous video of his son, the journalist James Wright Foley, being executed by Islamic State 18 months ago.
The White House said today the video showing the murder of American journalist James Foley at the hand of an Islamic militant “is authentic,” a determination that came hours after a top ...
James Foley, the journalist executed on a YouTube video by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, was memorialized Sunday in his home state of New Hampshire. Bishop Peter Libasci spoke during the ...
Foley knows where they are because she was there herself, twice. Jim, who'd turned to conflict journalism after trying his hand at teaching, was captured for six weeks in 2011 by pro-Qaddafi ...
The mother of James Foley – an American beheaded by ISIS – said she is “embarrassed and appalled” by how the U.S. government dealt with her son’s case.
Foley had been working as a freelance war video reporter covering the Syrian Civil War when he was abducted on Nov. 22, 2012. After more than two years of confinment and torture, he was killed in ...
Foley had been captured once before in Libya in 2011, where he was held by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists for 44 days and released, according to Charles Sennott, co-founder of GlobalPost.
James Foley's parents, John and Diane Foley, say that before their son was killed by ISIS they had hoped they could negotiate with the terrorist group, and promise that their son's legacy will ...
The (Westchester County, N.Y.) Journal News, White Plains, N.Y. The gruesome beheading of freelance journalist James Foley this week by a henchman affiliated with Islamic State brought me back to ...
Afghanistan. Libya. Syria. Jim Foley had to go. Had to. He had to be there. In 2011, editors at Global­Post — a Boston-based international news site — talked him into a stateside writing job ...