Sally-Anne Frances Jones was a British terrorist, Islamist, and UN-designated recruiter and propagandist for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known variously as Umm Hussain al-Britani, Sakinah Hussein, and the White Widow.
14 Facts About Sally-Anne Jones
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Sally-Anne Jones is thought to have been killed in June 2017 by a US drone strike.
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An only child, her parents divorced when she was a child; her father took his own life shortly after, when Jones was 10 years old.
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Sally-Anne Jones converted to Islam and left her previous partner claiming, in social media exchanges with Sunday Times journalist Dipesh Gadher, that the Iraq War had converted her to the ISIS cause.
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Sally-Anne Jones travelled to Syria with her younger son in late 2013 to join Hussain, originally from Birmingham, who soon became her husband.
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Hussain was killed by a US drone strike on 25 August 2015, After Hussain's death, Sally-Anne Jones commented that her husband was killed by "the greatest enemy of Allah".
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Sally-Anne Jones was "a good role model for my children", Jones told Dipesh Gadher.
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Sally-Anne Jones is believed to have recruited hundreds of British women to work for ISIS and in 2016 called on female sympathisers in Britain to make terrorist strikes in London, Glasgow, and Wales during Ramadan.
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Sally-Anne Jones was involved in publishing three online lists of US military personnel intended as potential targets for jihadists.
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In other tweets, Sally-Anne Jones called out specific soldiers by making their names the subject of her tweets.
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Sally-Anne Jones had said she was "leading a battalion of jihadist women".
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In October 2017, the Daily Mirror reported that Sally-Anne Jones had been killed in an American drone strike in June 2017 along with her 12-year-old son, JoJo.
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Sally-Anne Jones had decided to raise her younger son, JoJo, as an ISIS child soldier.
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Sally-Anne Jones issued a statement saying the boy was not JoJo.