James Wright Foley (October 18, 1973 – c. August 19, 2014) 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 northwestern Syria. He was beheaded in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).
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18 October 1973 Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
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Died |
19 August 2014 (aged 40) Raqqa, Syria
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Zodiac | Libra |
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