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Steven Sotloff

This frame grab from video posted online January 18, 2019, by supporters of the Islamic State group, purports to show a gun-mounted Islamic State group vehicle firing at members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour, Syria. (Militant Photo via AP)
May 12, 2025, 12:50 pm
Qatar and FBI find remains of 30 people believed killed by Islamic State in Syria
Bodies uncovered near Dabiq on Turkish border, DNA tests underway in effort to identify them; Qatari internal security forces declines to say who the search team was looking for
By AP and ToI Staff
File - El Shafee Elsheikh, one of the Islamic State Beatles,' speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria March 30, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)
August 19, 2022, 9:44 pm
Islamic State ‘Beatle’ sentenced to life by US for beheading hostages
‘Hatred truly overwhelmed your humanity,’ mother of 1 of El Shafee Elsheikh’s victims says, after he’s found guilty for role in ‘vicious and sadistic’ group that killed 4 Americans
By Matthew Barakat
File - El Shafee Elsheikh, one of the Islamic State Beatles,' speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria March 30, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)
March 30, 2022, 10:12 am
US trial begins of Islamic State ‘Beatle’ accused of kidnapping and murder
El Shafee Elsheikh one of four UK members of IS cell believed behind killing of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller
By Charlotte Plantive
Steven Sotloff next to his Islamic State captor, 'Jihadi John,' in a video released September 2, 2014. (Screen capture: SITE/Twitter)
October 2, 2021, 11:45 pm
US charges jihadist behind IS propaganda clips, including journalist beheadings
Canadian Mohammed Khalifa narrated videos as part of cell that filmed murders of James Foley and American-Israeli Steven Sotloff
By AFP and ToI Staff
An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State (IS) and identified by private terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence Group on September 2, 2014 purportedly shows a masked militant holding a knife and gesturing as he speaks to the camera in a desert landscape before beheading 31-year-old US freelance writer Steven Sotloff. (AFP PHOTO/SITE Intelligence Group/HO)
September 6, 2021, 3:45 am
Report: UK missed 14 chances to stop jihadi ‘Beatles’ before they joined IS
Court papers in trial of two cell members show authorities detained them on multiple occasions due to their radical activities, but released them every time
By ToI Staff and Agencies
File - A Kurdish security officer escorts Alexanda Kotey, one of the Islamic State 'Beatles,' at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP/Hussein Malla)
September 3, 2021, 4:08 am
Islamic State ‘Beatle’ pleads guilty over grisly hostage murders
UK-born Alexanda Kotey admits to involvement in scheme to kidnap and torture Westerners, including Israeli-American Steven Sotloff, among four beheaded by group
By Agencies
Alexanda Amon Kotey, allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
September 1, 2021, 8:22 am
Member of ‘Beatles’ IS cell set to plead guilty in US court on Syria beheadings
Court documents show British citizen Alexanda Amon Kotey, whose cell murdered US-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff and others, has a scheduled change of plea hearing
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 10, 2020, 3:36 am
British men accused of helping behead Islamic State hostages plead not guilty
2 suspects, allegedly part of brutal Jihadi cell dubbed ‘The Beatles,’ are on trial in US for helping terror group carry out killings, hostage negotiations
By Matthew Barakat
File - Slain US journalists James Foley, left, and Steven Sotloff, right. Both were executed by the Islamic State jihadist group two weeks apart in late August and September 2014.
October 8, 2020, 5:45 am
Journalists and aid workers: US hostages killed by Islamic State
Two IS terrorists go on trial for the killing of US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller
By AFP
In this March 30, 2019, file photo, Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," speak during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
October 8, 2020, 4:16 am
Islamic State ‘Beatles’ charged in gruesome killings of American, other hostages
British-born suspects appear in US court to face charges over campaign of torture, beheadings of victims in Syria including American-Israeli journalist Steven Sotloff
By Eric Tucker and Matthew Barakat
Screen capture from video of Shirley Sotloff, left, with her husband Arthur, delivering a statement about the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State group which executed their son, journalist Steven Sotloff. The statement was given October 27, 2019.
October 28, 2019, 9:42 pm
Beheaded journalist’s parents thank Trump for ‘eliminating’ Islamic State chief
President calls family of US-Israeli reporter Steven Sotloff after press conference on mission that brought death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
By JTA and ToI Staff
Members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) check for bombs at the stadium that was the site of Islamic State fighters' last stand in the city of Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, October 18, 2017. (AP/Asmaa Waguih)
February 9, 2018, 1:13 am
Two British IS fighters from notorious ‘Beatles’ group captured — US
Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, two remaining members of group that held Westerners, nabbed in Eastern Syria last month, official says
By AFP
Theo Padnos reenacts his imprisonment by al-Qaeda in Syria (Nusra Front) in 'Theo Who Lived.' (Zeitgeist Films)
October 6, 2016, 11:53 am
Tortured by al-Qaeda in Syria, a US journalist is determined to end the civil war
Ahead of a new documentary, Theo Padnos discusses his harrowing 22-month ordeal — from capture after crossing Turkish border to Qatar-brokered release on Golan Heights
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Austin Tice. (screen capture: YouTube)
June 24, 2016, 2:39 am
Steven Sotloff’s parents implore Obama to bring home missing US journalist
Four families of slain hostages urge president not to leave office without securing release of Austin Tice
By JTA
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, about 15 miles from Misrata, Libya, June 2, 2011. Sotloff was beheaded in September 2014 nearly a year after being kidnapped in Syria. (Etienne de Malglaive via Getty Images/JTA)
April 20, 2016, 9:09 pm
Family of American-Israeli journalist killed by IS sues Assad
In lawsuit seeking $90 million in damages, Steven Sotloff’s relatives say Syrian government provided material support for Islamic State
By AFP
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