ISIS says Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, mastermind of the group’s globalized savagery, is ‘martyred.’ U.S. officials are hinting they got him, but without solid confirmation.
Officially, the 39-year-old Taha Subhi Falaha, better known as Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, was spokesman for the so-called Islamic State: a vitriolic but compelling rhetorician for the caliphate whose imprecations—against America, the Shia, insufficiently pious Muslims and eventually al Qaeda—earned him the nickname “attack