Obama Foley

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  1 Year On, Slain US Hostage's Family Battles for Others

  One year after US journalist James Foley was savagely murdered by Islamic State kidnappers, his family is campaigning to give future hostages a fighting chance of avoiding his fate.

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  Barack Obama to Host Hostage Families as Policy Under Review

  US President Barack Obama will open the White House to families of hostages held overseas on today, a symbolic step to address criticism that his government has been uncaring and unresponsive.

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  Barack Obama Regrets Golfing After US Journalist James Foley's Death

  US President Barack Obama now admits that his decision to play a vacation round of golf immediately after addressing the murder of US journalist James Foley by Islamic State, was a mistake.

• Iraq Welcomes US Plan for Coalition Against Jihadists

  Iraq on Saturday welcomed US President Barack Obama's plan for an international coalition against jihadists as a "strong message of support", after repeatedly calling for aid against the militants.

• Second Syria Beheading Raises Stakes for United States

  Islamic State extremists have released a video purportedly showing the beheading of a second American journalist, Steven Sotloff, and warned President Barack Obama that continuing airstrikes against the group in Iraq will be met with the killing of more Western captives.

• US Seeks Coalition Against Islamic State, But Military Partners No Sure Bet

  The United States is intensifying its push to build an international campaign against Islamic State jihadist fighters in Iraq and Syria, including recruiting partners for potential joint military action, Obama administration officials said on Wednesday.

• US Hostage Theo Curtis Freed in Syria: John Kerry

  An American held hostage in Syria by an al-Qaida-linked group has been released after about two years, the Obama administration and a relative confirmed Sunday, days after militants had beheaded a US journalist abducted while covering that country's civil war.

• US Service to Mourn Journalist Slain by Militants

  The American journalist beheaded by Islamic State militants, James Foley, is being remembered in a Catholic ceremony at his hometown church.

• Slaying of American Reopens Debate on Ransoms

  The United States, by rejecting demands for a nine-digit payment to save kidnapped American journalist James Foley, upheld a policy choice that some European and Arab governments long found too wrenching to make themselves: ruling out ransom to rescue any citizen held captive by militant organizations, in hopes the tough stand will make Americans s...

• Critics Want Clear Obama Strategy Against Islamic State

  In calling for global action against the "cancer" of Islamic State militants, President Barack Obama puts the fight against them at the top of his agenda in a move that also raises questions about his military strategy in Iraq.

• Barack Obama Warns of Jihadist 'Cancer' as US Reveals Failed Rescue

  US President Barack Obama demanded Wednesday the world take action against the "cancer" of jihadist extremism in Iraq, as Washington revealed it had failed in an operation to free US hostages in neighboring Syria.

• James Foley Represented 'Best of America': Parents

  The parents of murdered journalist James Foley paid graceful tribute Wednesday to their "hero" son and urged his killers to release any other hostages they currently hold.

• Whole World Appalled by James Foley Murder: Barack Obama

  US President Barack Obama called for a joint effort to eliminate the "cancer" of jihadist terror in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday, after Islamic State militants murdered an American journalist.