James Foley
جيمس فولي
Journeys
Bearing Witness at Any Cost: James Foley's Journey to the ISIS Execution Video
From Libya to Syria to an ISIS cell — James Foley's determination to document war brought him to the front lines and ultimately to a staged execution that changed US foreign policy.
The Journalist Who Bore Witness Until the End
James Foley chose to document the Syrian revolution as a freelancer when major outlets were pulling back. His kidnapping and 21-month ordeal inside ISIS captivity, followed by his filmed execution, became one of the defining images of the Syria conflict's darkest chapter.
Biography
James Wright Foley was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in north-western Syria. He was murdered by decapitation in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen to be murdered by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).