This organization makes signature use of the substance TATP.
New York Times journalist Rukmini Callimachi mainly covers this organization. A subgroup of it led by the Maute brothers tried to gain control of Marawi City. Members of it often communicate using the app Telegram. This organization publishes the weekly "Naba" newspaper and changed its chief publication to one named "Rumiyah," or "Rome," in September 2016. This organization makes signature use of the substance TATP. Brett McGurk is the American special envoy to a (*) coalition against this group. It used to publish a magazine called Dabiq and was recently forced out of its capital at Raqqa. This group blamed American airstrikes for the destruction of the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, which it held until July 2017. For 10 points, name this terrorist organization led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi which gained prominence after beheading Westerners.
New York Times journalist Rukmini Callimachi mainly covers this organization.
ISIS [ISIL; Daesh; Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham]