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Islamic State terrorists claim to have beheaded the poster girl of the Kurdish militia’s battle for freedom in Syria.

The female fighter, known only by the name Rehana, became famous after a picture of her making the peace sign went viral on Twitter.

She is said to have killed more than 100 jihadists in the battle for the strategically important town of Kobane, on the Turkey-Syria border.

Now IS has claimed that a photo of a grinning rebel holding a woman’s severed head is evidence that she is dead.

But Kurdish journalist Pawan Durani said it was untrue.

He wrote today: “Rehana is very much alive. ISIS supporters just trying to lift morale.

Tigress is hunting for more.

“Let ISIS produce even a single picture of Rehana. Propaganda and falsehood runs in their blood. Rehana keeps hunting them."

She became a symbol for the Kurdish resistance movement against Islamic State when Pawan tweeted her picture on October 13.

He wrote: “Rehana has killed more than a hundred ISIS terrorists in Kobane...make her famous for her bravery.”

The photo received over 5,000 retweets and was shared around the world.

Rehana was fighting for the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, which has an Independent Women’s Battalion known as the YPJ.

Estimates suggest that one in three people fighting against ISIS in the Kobane region are female.

Earlier this month it was reported that a female Kurdish fighter had carried out a suicide bomb attack there killing several jihadists.

The efforts of resistance fighters in the town have recently been helped by coalition air support and US arms drops.

But more than 800 people have died in Kobane since Islamic State militants launched their attack on September 16.

The jihadists have lost 481 while 313 Kurds have been killed fighting to defend the area, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The figures do not include ISIS losses to US-led air strikes, which the Pentagon has said run to “several hundred.”