text: CLOSE Isis Widow Sally Jones Reportedly Killed In Syria. Time 
   
   In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Photo: Uncredited, AP) 
   
   LONDON — Britain’s most wanted female terrorist is believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike, according to local media. 
   
   Sally Jones, who recruited female jihadis to join the Islamic State, died in Syria in June, according to the Sun and other media. It is possible that her 12-year-old son Joe, or Jojo, was also killed in the strike, according to the reports. 
   
   The Sun reported that CIA officials told British intelligence that Jones was thought to have been killed by a U.S. Air Force Predator close to the border between Syria and Iraq. 
   
   Jones, 50, a former punk rock singer from the southern English county of Kent, traveled to Syria in 2013 to marry computer hacker Junaid Hussain. Hussain, 21, was a leading member of ISIS’s CyberCaliphate, the group responsible for hacking the U.S. military's Twitter and YouTube accounts in 2015. 
   
   On Sky 3.30p (U.K) w/ @KayBurley & analysis on reports Brit I.S recruiter, Sally Jones, was targeted & killed by a U.S drone strike👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/XgCMd5TswR — Mikey Kay (@MikeyKayNYC) October 12, 2017 
   
   Hussain, from Birmingham in central England, was reportedly killed by a U.S. drone strike in August 2015, after which Jones was dubbed the “White Widow” by some media. 
   
   Jones was prominent on social media, recruiting a number of women to join ISIS under the pseudonym Umm Hussain al-Britani, with stories about how great life was with the militants. She also encouraged extremists to carry out attacks in the West. 
   
   U.S. intelligence chiefs said they cannot be 100% sure Jones was killed, but are “confident” she is dead, the Sun reported. 
   
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   Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2wQDRJE ||||| WHITE Widow Sally Jones has been killed by a drone, says the CIA. 
   
   US spy chiefs told their British counterparts that jihadi Jones, who fled the UK to be an ISIS recruiter, died in June. 
   
   Tim Stewart News 14 Jones left the UK to be an ISIS recruiter 
   
   The US Air Force Predator strike is said to have taken place close to the border between Syria and Iraq. 
   
   A Whitehall source today confirmed Jones's death after she left her home in Chatham, Kent, with her 12-year-old son JoJo in 2013 to join ISIS in Syria. 
   
   The source said: “The Americans zapped her trying to get away from Raqqa. Quite frankly, it’s good riddance.” 
   
   CIA chiefs told their UK counterparts that a Predator killed 50-year-old Jones in June. 
   
   But news of the success has been kept quiet on both sides of the Atlantic amid fears Jojo may also have died. 
   
   Reports say Jones was last been seen alive fleeing the carnage in Raqqa and heading toward the Syrian border town of Mayadin. 
   
   Jones regularly used her son as a human shield. 
   
   Collect 14 Jones, a key IS recruiter of female foreign jihadis, let the terror group brainwash her son JoJo 
   
   Reuters 14 Sally Jones was killed by a drone in June 
   
   It is not known whether Jones was in a building or a moving vehicle when the drone struck. 
   
   It was flown remotely by a pilot at an air base in the States. The CIA and MI6 officers spent months trying to track her down. 
   
   Jones, a key IS recruiter of female foreign jihadis, was designated a High Value Target and would have been high on a US kill list. 
   
   But sources said Jojo was not specifically targeted as he had not been deemed a combatant. 
   
   If he was also killed in the missile strike, it would not have been on purpose. 
   
   14 Jones was a singer in an all-girl punk band 
   
   Sources said the attack would have been aborted if it had been known he was close by. 
   
   Jojo is believed to have been brainwashed by ISIS - undergoing lessons in radical Islam and firearms and ­martial arts training. 
   
   It's understood Jones is the first woman to be specifically targeted in a drone strike. 
   
   Shiraz Maher, deputy director at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, told the Middle East Eye: "If these reports are true, it means Sally Jones was targeted [by] a drone strike. 
   
   “That would be the first woman I know of who’s been specifically targeted in this way.” 
   
   US intelligence chiefs say they cannot be 100 per cent certain that the strike killed Jones as there was no attempt to recover any of her DNA. 
   
   Without putting special forces on the ground, it is impossible to have total certainty. 
   
   But the Americans are “confident” she is dead. 
   
   Drones often follow their targets for weeks, awaiting an opportunity to launch a missile without also killing civilians. 
   
   The US government could still face a backlash for killing Jojo if his death is confirmed. 
   
   14 Kalashnikov-wielding Jones in a black niqab after joining ISIS 
   
   Alamy 14 Drone strikes are monitored 
   
   Jojo is believed to have been brainwashed by IS — undergoing lessons in radical Islam and firearms and ­martial arts training. 
   
   Last year his heartbroken grandparents identified a boy who featured in an IS execution video as Jojo. 
   
   Standing behind a row of kneeling prisoners in orange boiler suits, the boy brandished a pistol moments before the men were murdered. 
   
   It was a world away from his Kent childhood, with relatives describing him as a gentle animal-loving lad. One said: “He would never even tread on an ant.” 
   
   Rex Features 14 Jones' husband Hussain 
   
   RAF bombers previously destroyed an Islamic State drone base 
   
   The drone strike came as coalition forces tightened the squeeze on IS positions in Raqqa. 
   
   Muslim convert Jones was nicknamed the White Widow after her IS kingpin husband Junaid Hussain was killed by a drone in 2015. 
   
   She met computer hacker Hussian, 21, from Birmingham, in Syria. Mum-of-two Jones, a former punk singer who lived on benefits, was put in charge of the female wing of an IS battalion of foreign fighters. 
   
   It was founded by Hussain to attack Europe and America. She was also a key recruiter of British IS wannabes. 
   
   US intelligence blames her for publicising a list of 1,300 US military personnel for IS fanatics to attack. 
   
   It is thought she is the sixth Briton killed in Syria by a drone. 
   
   PA:Press Association 14 Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin died in 2015 
   
   AFP 14 Jihadi John was also struck down in a drone strike 
   
   They include Reyaad Khan and Ruhul Amin, who died in 2015. Executioner Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, was struck months later. 
   
   Jones and Hussein were accused of plotting IS terror attacks across three continents. 
   
   They were linked to a plot to blow up the Queen and Prince Philip on the streets of London during VJ celebrations two years ago. She also used Twitter to spread extremist propaganda and fantasies about beheading Westerners with a “blunt knife.” 
   
   RAF fighter pilots halted a public execution with a drone 
   
   A direct hit kills guard and causes everyone below to scatter 
   
   People can be seen in the bottom left corner of the image running from the blast 
   
   In 2016 she was accused of calling on women in London, Glasgow and Cardiff to commit terror attacks in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. 
   
   In July a friend of Jones said she was desperate to return to the UK but was being forced to stay by her husband’s fanatical comrades. 
   
   More than 18,000 people signed a petition calling for Jones to be blocked from ever returning to Britain. 
   
   Over the summer coalition forces, including the US, UK and Australia, took part in more than 500 air and drone strikes per month against IS. 
   
   UK security services estimate 850 Britons have travelled to Syria to fight for IS, with about 250 feared to have returned here. 
   
   Punk who joined I.S SALLY Jones left her Chatham council house for the killing fields of Syria to be a jihadi bride — taking eight-year-old Jojo with her but leaving behind an older son. Once in Raqqa, the former punk singer wed Junaid Hussain, who she had met online, and took the name Umm Hussein al-Britani. Back home her distraught family watched as she posted anti­Semitic hate messages under a photograph of herself wearing a niqab and waving an AK-47. In one propaganda post, she posed as a nun with a gun and spoke of her wish to behead Christians with a “nice blunt knife.” Hussain was killed by a US army drone in Raqqa in 2015 — and Jones became known as the White Widow. She also became a prolific recruiter for IS and her name was put on a US kill list. But it did not stop her trying to encourage terror attacks in the West. In one 2016 post she sent a message saying: “Have a nice summer. I wouldn’t go into central London through June or July. Well, to be honest, I wouldn’t go there at all by Tube.” Her last appearance on social media was in September 2016. She said: “I’ll never marry again. I’ll remain loyal to my husband until my last breath.” ||||| Jones, known as ‘the white widow’, thought killed in June along with her 12-year-old son Jojo, but US officials have been unable to confirm 
   
   The British member of Islamic State Sally Jones is believed to have been killed, along with her 12-year-old son Jojo, in a US airstrike. 
   
   Although there is confidence she is dead, it is impossible to be categorical given the inability to collect evidence on the ground. Other members of Isis have been reported dead only to reappear. 
   
   Jones, dubbed “the white widow” by some in the press, was a regular propagandist on social media. She had more than 20 handles on Twitter but there has been no activity from her in recent months. 
   
   
   
   The Sun reported that the CIA had told its UK counterparts Jones was killed by a Predator drone strike near the Syria-Iraq border in June. 
   
   It added she had last been seen fleeing from Raqqa and heading for the Syrian border town of Mayadin. Many Isis members have fled the city as the organisation has gradually been squeezed. 
   
   The Pentagon was unable to confirm she had been killed. Maj Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a Pentagon spokesman, said: “I do not have any information that would substantiate that report but that could change and we are looking into this.” 
   
   Jones, a former punk musician, was born in Greenwich, south-east London, but then moved to Chatham, Kent. 
   
   
   
   After converting to Islam she travelled from the UK to Syria in 2013 to join her husband and fellow Briton Junaid Hussain, who was killed in a US drone strike in 2015. 
   
   
   
   It was after Hussain’s death that the British press began to refer to her as “the white widow”. She is not the only jihadist to be given this nickname, which has also been used for Samantha Lewthwaite – the widow of 7/7 London attacker Germaine Lindsay. 
   
   Both Hussain and Jones were accused of trying to recruit extremists in the UK to carry out attacks. She was placed on a UN sanctions list that included a travel ban and freeze on assets, and a hit list for US bombings. 
   
   
   
   Jones used her social media accounts to recruit women to Isis and provided practical advice on how to travel to Syria. She also encouraged individuals to carry out attacks in Britain, offering guidance on how to construct home-made bombs, and shared pictures of herself posing with weapons. 
   
   Jones posted messages in support of Isis as well as extremist comments such as: “You Christians all need beheading with a nice blunt knife and stuck on the railings at Raqqa ... Come here I’ll do it for you.” 
   
   A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: “We do not comment on matters of national security.” 
   
   
   
   Maj Gen Chip Chapman, the former head of counter-terrorism at the Ministry of Defence, said Jones would have been a “significant” target as a result of her alliance with Hussain and her role in recruiting Isis fighters. 
   
   Referring to reports her son was killed in the strike, he told Press Association: “It is a difficult one because under the UN Charters he is under the age of what we would classify as a soldier.” 
   
   
   
   He continued: “Even if he got up to really bad things, he shouldn’t have been targeted. We don’t know for sure whether he was with her or not.” 
   
   Sabrina Siddiqui and agencies contributed to this report 
   
  
target: – ISIS has reportedly lost one of its more unlikely members: Sally Jones, a former punk singer from Britain who traveled to Syria to become a recruiter for the group in 2013. A British intelligence source tells the Sun that Jones was killed in June by a drone strike near Syria's border with Iraq. "The Americans zapped her trying to get away from Raqqa. Quite frankly, it's good riddance," the source says. Jones, 50, left the UK with her son to marry 21-year-old ISIS hacker Junaid Hussain, reports USA Today, which describes her as Britain's most-wanted female terrorist. She became known as the "White Widow" after Hussain died in a drone strike in 2015. Jones' death has not been confirmed, though the social media accounts she used to offer Western women advice on joining ISIS and traveling to Syria have been silent for months, the Guardian reports. "You Christians all need beheading with a nice blunt knife and stuck on the railings at Raqqa ... Come here I’ll do it for you," she said in one post. JoJo, Jones' 12-year-old son, may also have been killed in the airstrike. He was radicalized in Syria and his grandparents identified him last year as an executioner seen in an ISIS video. Authorities say they're not sure if he was with Jones—and the brainwashed boy was too young to be declared a target in any case.