The flag of the Syrian al-Qaeda-affiliated group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

Daily Mail – The mother and father of kidnapped journalist James Wright Foley called on ISIS militants to spare the lives of other captured hostages as barbaric video of his beheading emerged on Tuesday.

Graphic footage of the execution appeared in a video titled ‘A message to the US’, in which an apparently coerced Foley, 40, recites a pre-prepared script presumably given to him by his captors which he delivers unflinchingly to the camera.

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