- Briton Abu Abdel Malik al-Britani was killed fighting for ISIS in Syria
- Died alongside two Canadian jihadis during clashes in desert town Dabiq
- Death brings total number of dead British ISIS jihadis to at least 35 in 2014
- Number of British deaths increased dramatically towards end of the year
- U.S. airstrikes and a strong Kurdish resistance have killed many Britons
Abu Abdel Malik Al-Britani's death was announced on social media
This British jihadi was pictured smiling as he posed with an M16 assault rifle outside a sports shop.
The extremist, who called himself Abu Abdel Malik al-Britani, became the thirty fifth Briton to have been killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria this week.
In the image the militant is seen wearing camouflage gear as he proudly brandishes the weapon on a shopping street.
He is understood to have been killed alongside two Canadian jihadis during fierce clashes in the Syrian desert town of Dabiq.
He is just the latest in a steady flow of British militants to be killed fighting for ISIS in the Middle East - a figure that has grown dramatically towards the end of the year as American-led airstrikes target the group's strongholds and Kurdish YPG and Peshmerga forces retake land from the terrorists.
Today it was revealed that US-led air strikes in Syria and Iraq have killed more than 1,000 jihadis in the past three months, nearly all of them from the Islamic State.
'At least 1,171 have been killed in the Arab and international air strikes [since September 23], including 1,119 jihadists of the Islamic State group and Al-Nusra Front,' said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists and medics across the war-ravaged country for its information.
Among the dead were 1,046 members of IS, which has seized large chunks of Iraq and Syria and is the main target of the air campaign.
Seventy-two of those killed were members of Al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front, while another was a jihadist prisoner whose affiliation was unknown, an Observatory statement said. The remaining 52 were civilians.
Abu Abdel Malik's death was announced on social media by a fighter of Algerian origin who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Musab and who claims to have trained alongside the militant in Syria.
He said the Briton was killed in Dabiq alongside two militants of Canadian origin named Abu Ibrahim Al-Canadi & Abu Abdullah Al-Canadi.
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