Foreigners executed by IS militants More than 60 foreigners – including several Westerners – are believed to have been executed by militants or jihadist movements linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group since August 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 19, 2014: IS posts video showing beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley (above left), seized in Syria in 2012. Militants also warn that U.S. reporter Steven Sotloff (above right) will be killed unless America halts air strikes against IS Sep 2: IS says it has beheaded Sotloff, who was abducted in August 2013 near Syrian city of Aleppo Sep 13: IS claims to have beheaded British aid worker David Haines –seized in Syriain March 2013 –blaming Britain for supporting U.S. Sep 24: IS-linked Algerian group Jund al-Khilafah releases video showing beheading of French hiker Hervé Gourdel, after Paris rejects IS demands to cease air strikes in Iraq Oct 3: IS video shows beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, kidnapped in December 2013 while delivering supplies to Syrian refugees Nov 16: IS says it has killed U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, abducted in Syria in October 2013 Jan 8, 2015: Libyan branch of IS claims to have executed Tunisian journalists Sofiene Chourabi and Nadhir Ktari, who went missing near Ajdabiya in September 2014 Jan 24 and 31: IS videos show beheadings of Japanese hostages Haruna Yukaw (below left) and Kenji Goto (below right), after Tokyo fails to meet ransom demand Feb 3: IS video shows Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh, captured in December 2014 after his plane crashed in Syria, being burned alive inside metal cage Feb 15: IS militants in Libya claim mass beheading of 21 Coptic Christians – most of them Egyptian –kidnapped in city of Sirte Apr 19: Video shows IS execution of 28 Ethiopian Christians in Libya Aug 12 IS releases photo showing apparent killing of Tomislav Salopek, Croatian hostage captured on July 22 while working for French firm in Cairo -------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Wire agencies Pictures: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn words 330