The United States military said Friday it was "reasonably certain" that the Islamic State executioner known as "Jihadi John," a British citizen, was killed in a drone strike in Syria, AFP reported.

Mohammed Emwazi, whose masked figure appeared in a string of graphic videos showing the beheading of Western hostages, was targeted in a combined British-American operation Thursday in Raqa, the de facto ISIS capital in war-torn Syria.

(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)


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