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James Foley
Organization: Freelance
Year: 2014
Country: Syria
Bio:
American photojournalist James Foley filed his photos from an Internet café in Syria on Nov. 22, 2012, and was headed to Turkey when armed men overtook his taxi and forced him into a van at gunpoint. He was covering Syria's civil war for GlobalPost and Agence France-Presse. A seasoned war correspondent, Foley was held captive for 44 days in 2011 while covering the uprising in Libya. During his captivity in Syria, Foley was beaten and tortured, yet he shared his food and his only blanket, and invented games to raise the spirits of his fellow hostages. On Aug. 19, 2014, Foley was beheaded by ISIS militants, who posted a video of his murder online. He was 40. "He gave his life trying to expose the world to the suffering of the Syrian people," his parents said. |