Journalist Beheaded

A U.S. judge sentenced a Saudi-born Canadian man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to aiding Islamic State by working with propagandists who publicized the group's beheading of hostages including American journalist James Foley.

The White House said it was "outraged" Thursday after Pakistan's top court upheld the acquittal and ordered the release of the militant convicted of masterminding the 2002 beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl.

A journalist was found decapitated Wednesday in a violence-plagued area of eastern Mexico, police said, the latest in a string of killings in one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters.

US President Barack Obama met today with the family of Steven Sotloff, who was abducted in Syria and beheaded by the Islamic State group in September.

Social media users have embraced a 4-year-old tweet by Kenji Goto as a poignant memorial to the slain freelance journalist.

When Islamic State militants posted a video Sunday showing the grisly killing of a Japanese journalist, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacted with outrage, promising "to make the terrorists pay the price."

The Islamic State claimed to have beheaded a Japanese journalist in a video released Saturday night, culminating a two-week drama that appears to have cost the lives of two Japanese men.

An online video released on Saturday night purported to show an Islamic State group militant behead Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, ending days of negotiations by diplomats to save the man.

The Libyan branch of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group today claimed to have killed two Tunisian journalists who went missing in September. It was not immediately possible to verify the claim.

At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

The gruesome murders of foreign journalists by the Islamic State group contributed to 2014 being a particularly deadly year for international correspondents, an annual review by the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Tuesday.

Attacks on journalists have grown more barbaric and kidnappings have soared, Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday, after a year when violence against the media took centre stage and 66 reporters were killed.

The US believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the videos depicting the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker, the FBI director says.

The Islamic State group released a video on Thursday of a British freelance photojournalist, John Cantlie, in which he says that he is being held captive.

Britain ruled out a mission by special forces to rescue a Briton whose life was threatened in the latest execution video released by Islamic State militants.

A U.S. judge sentenced a Saudi-born Canadian man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to aiding Islamic State by working with propagandists who publicized the group's beheading of hostages including American journalist James Foley.

The White House said it was "outraged" Thursday after Pakistan's top court upheld the acquittal and ordered the release of the militant convicted of masterminding the 2002 beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl.

A journalist was found decapitated Wednesday in a violence-plagued area of eastern Mexico, police said, the latest in a string of killings in one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters.

US President Barack Obama met today with the family of Steven Sotloff, who was abducted in Syria and beheaded by the Islamic State group in September.

Social media users have embraced a 4-year-old tweet by Kenji Goto as a poignant memorial to the slain freelance journalist.

When Islamic State militants posted a video Sunday showing the grisly killing of a Japanese journalist, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacted with outrage, promising "to make the terrorists pay the price."

The Islamic State claimed to have beheaded a Japanese journalist in a video released Saturday night, culminating a two-week drama that appears to have cost the lives of two Japanese men.

An online video released on Saturday night purported to show an Islamic State group militant behead Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, ending days of negotiations by diplomats to save the man.

The Libyan branch of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group today claimed to have killed two Tunisian journalists who went missing in September. It was not immediately possible to verify the claim.

At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

The gruesome murders of foreign journalists by the Islamic State group contributed to 2014 being a particularly deadly year for international correspondents, an annual review by the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Tuesday.

Attacks on journalists have grown more barbaric and kidnappings have soared, Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday, after a year when violence against the media took centre stage and 66 reporters were killed.

The US believes it has identified the British-accented masked man in the videos depicting the beheadings of two American journalists and a British aid worker, the FBI director says.

The Islamic State group released a video on Thursday of a British freelance photojournalist, John Cantlie, in which he says that he is being held captive.

Britain ruled out a mission by special forces to rescue a Briton whose life was threatened in the latest execution video released by Islamic State militants.