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 ...

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 ...

James Foley, American journalist 7 photos John Foley said their son was "driven by the suffering of the children" in his reporting from Syria. "He was a courageous, fearless journalist.

James listened to others and revealed little about his own acts of human compassion overseas, even to his parents, his father John Foley recalled. "But we've discovered what a great person he was.

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.

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 ...

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.

When James Foley’s mysterious captors finally contacted his family and revealed their demands in exchange for the American journalist’s release, they were so absurd that the group didn’t ...

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 ...