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British IS recruiter Sally-Anne Jones, dubbed the White Widow, has been killed in a US drone strike, it has been reported.

She has become a poster girl for ISIS, particularly here in the West Midlands, but who is Sally Jones?

The British jihadi became known as the White Widow after the death of Kings Heath terrorist Junaid Hussain, who was the leader of the Islamic State’s “digi-jihad” computer hacking brigade.

Jones, who now goes by the name Umm Hussain Britaniyah, was one of the world’s most wanted terrorists and was believed to be on a hit list of 20 jihadis who will be targeted by the SAS in Syria, according to a report citing military sources.

She reportedly led of the secret Anwar al-Awlaki battalion’s female wing - where her responsibilities included training European female terror recruits.

Her Birmingham links, an unusual past, Twitter propaganda and the fact that with her blonde pig tails she looks anything but an ISIS terrorist, have made Jones a well-recognised character.

The 48-year-old is originally from Chatham, Kent, and was a guitarist in all-girl rock band Krunch. She reportedly lived on welfare and worked as a perfume saleswoman for L’Oreal.

The mother-of-two fled to Syria with her youngest son JoJo, who was born in December 2004.

Terrorist hacker Hussain was killed in a drone strike in 2015 in Raqqa, Syria.

Following his death, she tweeted that she was proud her “husband was killed by the biggest enemy of Allah”.

The “White Widow” added that she would “never love anyone but him”.

On September 28, 2015, the United Nations sanctioned Jones as an agent operating on behalf of a terrorist organisation.

She has used her Twitter account to spread propaganda for the group, and has tweeted of her wish to behead a Western prisoner in Syria and behead Christians with a “blunt knife”.

She has made threats on social media as a response to US-led coalition airstrikes on ISIS forces in Syria and Iraq.

She wrote: “To be honest I wouldn’t go into Central London through June ... or even July well to be honest I wouldn’t go there at all especially by Tube.”

Jones also wrote: “U can’t just sit there with ur tea & scones ordering RAF drone strikes on UK brothers with no comeback from the Islamic state.”

She has also previously hinted that she wanted to find “paradise” by becoming an ISIS suicide bomber.

Jones was killed close to the border between Syria and Iraq by a US Air Force strike in June, according to The Sun.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We do not comment on matters of national security."