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TORONTO — A Canadian wanted by the RCMP after he allegedly left Ottawa to join ISIL may have been killed in a missile strike in Syria more than two years ago, according to a newly released court document.

Khadar Hassan Khalib was charged with two terrorism offences in February 2015, along with John Maguire and alleged recruiter Awso Peshdary. But the document suggested Khalib died on Nov. 25, 2014.

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Peshdary allegedly told Abdullah Milton, an undercover informant, that he had learned of Khalib’s death on social media, according to a summary of the RCMP investigation, called Project Servant.

“On November 28, 2014, Peshdary messaged Milton and told him that he had learned from a Twitter feed that Khadar Khalib had died in a missile strike three days earlier in Kobane, Syria,” the document says.

“This has not been confirmed.”

While social media accounts have claimed that Maguire died in Kobane in October 2014, the document is the first suggestion that Khalib was also killed there, said Canadian terrorism expert Amarnath Amarasingam.