This file photo shows a still image taken from a video released by the Islamic State showing the British militant known as "Jihadi John." (AFP/Getty Images)

The Islamic State appeared to confirm Tuesday that a British militant known as “Jihadi John,” who beheaded Western hostages in widely publicized videos, had been killed.

The acknowledgment appeared in the latest issue of an English-language magazine the group publishes online and came two months after U.S. officials announced that the notorious executioner had probably been killed in a U.S. drone strike.

The militant’s real name, Mohammed Emwazi, was revealed by The Post last year after he appeared in a series of gruesome videos wearing a black mask while killing hostages, including three U.S. citizens.

An article in the Islamic State’s online magazine, Dabiq, said that Emwazi was “targeted in a strike by an unmanned drone in the city of [Raqqa], destroying the car and killing him instantly” on Oct. 27.

The magazine identified him as Abu Muharib al-Muhajir but noted that he had “made headlines around the world as ‘Jihadi John’ ” and that he had been born in Kuwait before moving with his family to London.

U.S. officials declined to comment on the article but generally regard statements in approved publications such as Dabiq as the equivalent of an official acknowledgment by the terrorist group of a leaders’s demise.

The latest issue of Dabiq also includes a lengthy essay praising the recent terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., in which 14 people were killed, as an example of how even distant supporters are capable of “terrorizing the crusaders in their very strongholds.”

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the husband and wife who were killed after carrying out the attack, declared their allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook post. But officials have indicated that there is no evidence so far that the two were in communication with or got direct support from the Islamic State.

Emwazi’s ghastly videos in mid-2014 served for many Americans as their introduction to the Islamic State and its vicious strain of Islamist militancy. He taunted Western leaders including President Obama, vowing additional killings in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes that intensified as additional videos surfaced.

The Americans he killed included two U.S. journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as an aid worker, Peter Kassig.

Another militant with a British accent has drawn comparisons to Jihadi John after appearing in more recent videos, including one released this month that showed five alleged spies for Britain being killed.