Syria - US urged to move quickly to save Steven Sotloff

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges the United States to do everything possible to obtain the release of Steven Sotloff, a US freelance journalist held hostage for more than a year in Syria and now facing the same fate as James Foley, the US journalist beheaded by the militant jihadi group that now calls itself Islamic State. In the video of Foley's barbaric execution that is posted online, Islamic State threatened to kill Sotloff in a similar fashion. Pursuing its deadly logic, it then (...)

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