MISRATA, LIBYA – JUNE 02: In this handout image made available by the photographer American journalist Steven Sotloff (Center with black helmet) talks to Libyan rebels on the Al Dafniya front line, 25 km west of Misrata on June 02, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. Sotloff was kidnapped in August 2013 near Aleppo, Syria and was recently shown on a jihadist video in which fellow US journalist James Foley was executed. In the video the militant form the Islamic State (IS) threatens to kill Sotloff next if the US continues its aerial campaign against the insurgency. (Photo by Etienne de Malglaive via Getty Images)

A file photo of Steven Sotloff that was distributed when he went missing last year. Photo by Etienne de Malglaive via Getty Images

According to multiple outlets, the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq have reportedly beheaded another American journalist and released the video online.

The journalist, Steven Sotloff, has written for Time, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, and others, and was reported missing in August of 2013. According to the Post, the video of Sotloff was “obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group, an organization that tracks the online postings of Islamist militant groups.” The Post also reports that Sotloff’s mother released a video recently pleading with the Islamic State to let her son go.

Last month, American journalist James Foley was beheaded on camera by an Islamic State militant and, at the end of the video, another militant brought in Sotloff and threatened to kill him if President Barack Obama didn’t stop airstrikes against the group.

The video also shows another hostage, who was identified as David Cawthorne Haines, a Briton, named as the next person to be executed if Obama doesn’t stop attacks on the Islamic State.

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