An American journalist covering the bloody civil war in Syria has not been heard from since he was kidnapped on Thanksgiving Day, less than a year after he was captured and held by government forces in Libya, his family said.

James Foley, 39, a freelance reporter covering the conflict for the French wire service Agence France Presse and the Global Post web site, is believed to have been captured at gunpoint in the northern Syrian province of Idlib on Nov. 22.

His family, employers and government officials had kept his kidnapping secret until this week when his parents broke their silence and publicly appealed to his captors.

via U.S. Journalist Captured in Syria – ABC News.

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