'ISIS fanatic Jihadi John killed by a US drone strike' in Raqqa

The world's most wanted man, Jihadi John, is believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Syria – near a symbolic clock tower where the Islamic State has executed dozens of prisoners. 

Pentagon officials say they are '99 per cent' sure they have wiped out the British ISIS executioner Mohammed Emwazi in the terror group's capital of Raqqa.

The 27-year-old from London, who appeared in a string of sickening beheading videos of Western hostages including two British aid workers, was 'evaporated' by a missile as he climbed into a car.

Emwazi is believed to have been hit near a clock tower where the group has staged horrific public executions, including crucifixions, since capturing the city two years ago, anti-ISIS activists said.

Bethany Haines, 18, the daughter of one of his British victims, David Haines, today told how she felt 'an instant sense of relief' after hearing reports of his death having previously said she would only have closure 'once there's a bullet between his eyes'.

But Stuart Henning, the nephew of British aid worker Alan Henning, who was also butchered by Emwazi, said he had mixed feelings because he had 'wanted the coward behind the mask to suffer'.

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