Transcript for New details on 'White Widow' ISIS recruiter

news. Reports this morning that the British ISIS recruiter known as the white widow has been killed. For the very latest let's go to our senior attorney correspondent Ian Pannell in London. Good morning, Ian. Reporter: Yeah, good morning, robin. In the last hours a number of reports contemplating the CIA has told British intelligence that Sally Jones was killed in a U.S. Drone strike early this year. Jones is infamous in the uk nicknamed the white widow because of her blond hair and extremist views. She used to be a punk rock guitarist but converted to Islam and moving to Syria. Sally Jones shared bizarre pictures of herself posing with weapons, becoming notorious for trying to recruit girls and women to join ISIS and posted threatening messages asking women to attack and how to make bombs. This is not confirmed by U.S. Officials, but perhaps more proof the militants are feeling the pressures of the battle against ISIS in Syria reaches its climax. It's been going on for months. How close is ISIS to being defeated, Ian. Reporter: U.S. Forces on the front line in that fight for raqqah, the heart of the territory ISIS used to control and now hearing it could be liberated within weeks, robin. Thank you. Back home there are new

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