ISIS Beheads Japanese Hostage Kenji Goto in New Video
After a proposed prisoner swap failed to materialize this week, ISIS released a gruesome video on Saturday purporting to show the beheading of captured Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
ISIS Claims to Have Beheaded Japanese Hostage in New Video
On Saturday morning, ISIS militants released a new video which purportedly shows the decapitated body of "security contractor" Haruna Yukawa, one of two kidnapped Japanese nationals the Islamic State demanded a $200 million ransom for earlier this week.
How a Mentally Ill Japanese War Tourist Became an ISIS Hostage
Two Japanese hostages were unveiled by ISIS this morning in a video demanding a $200 million ransom: A journalist named Kenji Goto, and "security contractor" named Haruna Yukawa. But Yukawa is less a private mercenary than a war tourist—one who traveled to Syria in the wake of a serious mental breakdown.
