WASHINGTON: The US military said Friday (Saturday in Manila) it was "reasonably certain" that the Islamic State executioner "Jihadi John" was killed in a drone strike in Syria, but relatives of the British militant's victims said his death brought them little comfort.
Mohammed Emwazi, whose masked figure appeared in a string of graphic videos showing the beheading of Western hostages, was targeted in a combined British-US operation Thursday in Raqa, the de facto IS capital in war-torn Syria.
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