US confident 'Jihadi John' killed in drone strike

The US military said Friday it was "reasonably certain" that the Islamic State executioner "Jihadi John," a British citizen, was killed in a drone strike in Syria. 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. In a briefing webcast from Baghdad to Pentagon reporters, Colonel Steve Warren said it would take time for f