Chilling details of the beheading of US Journalist James Wright Foley

Chilling details of the beheading of US Journalist James Wright Foley

A shocking video has emerged showing an ISIS militant who speaks with a British accent brutally executing an American photojournalist who was kidnapped in Syria two years ago.

Graphic footage of the execution appeared in an video titled: 'A Message to the U.S.', in which an apparently coerced James Wright Foley, 40, describes America as his true killers for using airstrikes to assist Kurdish forces in recapturing the Mosul Dam from ISIS militants.

ISIS 'beheads' US journalist James Foley in retaliation for US intervention in Iraqi crisis

ISIS 'beheads' US Journalist in retaliation of US intervention in Iraqi crisis

Islamist militants claim to have beheaded a man identified as James Foley, an American journalist kidnapped in Syria in late 2012, in a graphic video posted on the internet.

A spokeswoman for the White House said the intelligence community was trying to determine the video’s authenticity. “If genuine, we are appalled by the brutal murder of an innocent American journalist,” she said.