Diane Foley

Oct 22, 2024 | international.la-croix.com | Diane Foley

Diane Foley: The night before, I had cried for a lifetime. In the morning, I gathered my courage, asked God to be with me, and my husband and I stepped out in front of our house. Dwelling on the tragedy didn’t interest us; we had to draw something good from it all. That’s what our son would have wanted. It was also our duty—we had to protect the hostages still alive.

Sep 20, 2024 | lemonde.fr | Diane Foley

Opinion United States The journalist, beheaded by IS in 2014, paid with his life for the 'cruel and misinformed' policy of the time, writes his mother in an op-ed for Le, stressing that dialogue, even with the enemy, can prove a powerful weapon. 4 min read Lire en français Subscribers only Just over 10 years ago, on August 19, 2014, my son, the journalist James Foley, was brutally murdered by the Islamic State organization (IS) in Syria.

Sep 20, 2024 | lemonde.fr | Diane Foley

Il y a un peu plus de dix ans, le 19 août 2014, mon fils le journaliste James Foley a été sauvagement assassiné par l’organisation Etat islamique (EI), alors qu’il se trouvait en Syrie. Les images de sa décapitation ont déferlé sur Internet, avec une violence qui a pétrifié les Américains. Sa combinaison orange est devenue emblématique. Et, comme pour tant d’autres personnes enlevées et prises en otage ces dernières années, notre gouvernement a considéré sa mort comme un simple dommage collatéral.

Aug 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Diane Foley

Ten years ago Monday, my son, the journalist James Foley, was brutally murdered by ISIS in Syria. On the day my son was killed I felt almost more rage against our government than I did against his killers. Along with so many other Americans kidnapped and taken hostage through recent years, it seemed to me that Jim was considered collateral damage by our political leaders. The government has claimed that it did all it could to bring Jim home but I refused to accept what I saw as its inaction.

Aug 1, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Diane Foley |Luke Hartig |Viola Gienger |Paras Shah |Harrison Blank

August this year marks 10 years since the shocking execution of American freelance journalist James Foley at the hands of ISIS amid the war in Syria in 2014. His videotaped decapitation was the first of a spree of ISIS beheadings, including several Americans, which ISIS often used as recruitment propaganda. Jim’s killing, almost two years after he had been captured, stunned the world. A month later, ISIS did the same to another American journalist, Time Magazine contributor Steven Joel Sotloff.