After James Foley, ISIS beheads American journalist Steven Sotloff: Reports

The Islamic State of Syria (ISIS) has reportedly released a video that shows the beheading American freelance journalist Steven Joel Sotloff by an ISIS member.

SITE Intel Group, a research organization that tracks jihadist and White Supremacist web postings has reported that the 31 year old journalist has been executed by the ISIS.

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Sotloff had been kidnapped from northern Syria in 2013. Following James Foley's murder and warning that Sotloff would be next, his mother had made plead to the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to show mercy and release her son.

Sotloff's reported killing comes two weeks after James Foley's execution.

According to SITE the masked ISIS member who carried out Foley's beheading appears next to Sotloff with a knife. He says “I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State.”

“I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State.”

Transcript of reported video

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Sotloff describes himself in the video as “paying the price” for US administration's decision to carry strikes against ISIS in Iraq.

The SITE report mentions that ISIS has threatened to carry beheading of a British national identified as David Cawthorne Haines and warned governments to back off "this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State".