IS confirms death of ‘Jihadi John’ in Syria drone strike

According to both ISIS and the United States versions of events, Emwazi was travelling in a auto in the vicinity of Raqqa, Syria when the vehicle was struck.

Militant groups ISIS has confirmed that its British militant known as Jihadi John died a year ago in November.

Emwazi, a British citizen, was dubbed Jihadi John because of his British accent.

He appeared masked in a string of videos, which showed beheadings of Western hostages.

He also appeared in the videos showing the beheading of USA journalist Steven Sotloff, the killing of British aid workers David Haines, Alan Henning, Abdul-Rahman Kassig as well as Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. According to the article, the killed extremist generously once gave away a concubine to an injured brother.

Emwazi would later claim to the London-based campaign group Cage that while trying to return to Kuwait from Britain, in July 2010, the British authorities blocked him from travelling and put him on a terror watch list.

The army assumed anyway, now the ‘Islamic State’ has confirmed it: the fighter “Jihadi John” has been killed during an air raid in Syria in November.

Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa, who was held in Syria for more than six months after his abduction in September 2013, said the Western hostages were held by three British-sounding captors who were nicknamed “the Beatles”. He completed computing degree at the University of Westminster in 2009.

Dabiq also praised other terrorist actions around the globe – including the recent bombing in Bangladesh – and the November 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

The two men identified in the magazine as Iraqis are named only as Ukashah al-Iraqi and Ali al-Iraqi.

ISIS described Emwazi as a “martyr” and prayed to “Allah…to envelop him with His mercy and enter him into the highest levels of al-Firdaws (paradise)”.