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31 October 2015
- UPDATE (11-01-15): Victory over ISIS in Iraqi town has some supporting Iran
- UPDATE (11-01-15): ISIS shells security headquarters in Khalediya,says District Council
- UPDATE (11-01-15): New U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance launches offensive against Islamic State
- UPDATE (11-01-15): ISIS Claims Video Shows Them Shooting Down Russian Plane Flight 9268
- Federal Police announces killing 69 ISIS elements during clashes in Samarra
- ISIS affiliate in Egypt says downed Russian plane in Sinai; Mosco denies claim
- ISIS jihadi with American accent addresses Obama in 'revenge' video for US special forces raid which rescued 70 Iraqi hostages as four Peshmerga fighters are beheaded
- ISIS video purportedly shows beheadings of Kurdish fighters in Iraq
- UPDATE (10-31-15): ISIS Assassinates Prominent Syrian Activists in Turkey
- UPDATE (10-31-15): Four men accused of spying are brutally gunned down by ISIS jihadis in Iraq as the depraved group continues its rule of terror
- UPDATE (10-31-15): Pentagon Throws Shade on New ISIS War Plan
- ‘Jihad is a lot of fun,’ Deso Dogg, a German rapper turned Islamic State pitchman said. Now he’s reportedly dead from U.S. air strike
- U.S. to Deploy Special Operations Forces in Syria: Official
- German rapper who joined ISIL killed in airstrike in Syria
- U.S. reports 12 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria
- UPDATE (10-31-15): Pro-ISIS Activists React Joyously On Twitter To Canada’s Elections
- UPDATE (10-30-15): For Christians uprooted by ISIS there is fruitfulness in suffering
- UPDATE (10-30-15): Bolingbrook man pleads guilty to terrorism charge
- UPDATE (10-30-15): New Jersey Man Who Tried to Help Organize ‘Small Army’ of ISIS Fighters Pleads Guilty
- UPDATE (10-30-15): Syrian rebel group says assault on ISIS imminent
- UPDATE (10-30-15): Chicago-area man pleads guilty in Islamic State case
- UPDATE (10-30-15): Dialogue with the Islamic State? Probably not possible, says Cardinal Parolin
- The cost of freedom from Islamic State
- Iraq ‘didn’t ask’ for US ground operations against ISIS
- Islamic State Causes Serious Harm to Iraq Oil Industry - Oil Ministry
- ISIS orders the closure of women's clinic in Syria's Raqqa
- Source: ISIS beheads 30 people including officers and women in central Mosul
- Islamic State planning mass attack on Britain, warns head of MI5
- Cut off by ISIL advance, residents stranded in Syria’s Aleppo
- UPDATE (10-30-15): Brit teen ‘tries to join ISIS after becoming fascinated by sick beheading videos
- UPDATE (10-29-15): ISIL behind Oct 10 Ankara Massacre, says prosecutor's office
- UPDATE (10-29-15): 'Lots of our officers joined ISIS due to ideology’ – FSA commander to RT
- UPDATE (10-29-15): US Urges Europe to Relocate Forces to Incirlikto Fight ISIL in Syria
- UPDATE (10-29-15): 6 security elements including officer killed in clashes with ISIS in Thar-Thar
- UPDATE (10-29-15): 14 ISIS elements Killed in airstrikes in central Fallujah
- UPDATE (10-29-15): No immediate increase in Syria anti-IS campaign
- UPDATE (10-29-15): Islamic State on recruitment spree in Russia
- US to attack Islamic State oil deposits in Syria
- UPDATE (10-30-15): Every child left behind in the Islamic State’s new elementary schools
- UPDATE (10-28-15): Lebanese Daesh supporters busted with bomb material in South Korea
- UPDATE (10-28-15): ISIS Destroys Palmyra Columns By Tying People to Them and Blowing Them Up
- UPDATE (10-28-15): Source: ISIS executes 3 clan elders from Jabour tribe in southern Nineveh
- UPDATE (10-28-15): Security forces repel ISIS attack on Anbar University in western Ramadi
- UPDATE (10-28-15): Pentagon calls for stepped up Islamic State campaign
- ISIL bomber hits Saudi mosque
- UPDATE (10-30-15): Meanwhile in Iraq...Iraqi Sunnis ready to fight ISIS but lack support, says tribal leader
- UPDATE (10-28-15): Al-Shabaab Faction Pledges Loyalty to ISIS After Killing 150 Christian Students
- UPDATE (10-27-15): The "Islamic State's" Networks of Influence
- UPDATE (10-27-15): Islamic State attack on Saudi mosque kills one: ministry
- Turkey 'shoot-out with IS' leaves police and suspects dead
- PHOTOS: ISIS executes Syrian teenage prisoner by crushing him to death
- WATCH: ISIS Executes Man by Running Him Over With Tank
- UPDATE (11-04-15): Captured ISIS Leaders in Iraq Confess to Receiving Military and Intelligence from the United States
- UPDATE (10-29-15): Islamic State Sends Hit Squads to Target Christian Refugees
- UPDATE (10-26-15): Iraqi warplanes destroy ISIS headquarters in western Ramadi
- US, Russian jets team up for first time to destroy ISIS oil field, pipelines in Syria
- 9 ISIS elements killed, 4 vehicles destroyed in air raid in Western Anbar
- Overextension by the Kurds will only benefit ISIL
- Tony Blair Says Invasion of Iraq Contributed to Rise of ISIL
- UPDATE (10-26-15): White British Muslim is arrested for ‘collecting jihadi cash’ in MoS sting: Suspected ISIS fundraiser questioned by anti-terror squad detectives
- UPDATE (10-25-15): Video Purports to Show Anti-ISIS Raid That Killed American Hero
- UPDATE (10-25-15): Airstrikes Hit ISIL Terrorists in Syria, Iraq - Department of Defense
- UPDATE (10-25-15): Heading for Britain: ISIS sends ASSASSINS into UN refugee camps to murder Christians
- ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack in Bangladesh
- Behind Delta Force, the Covert Unit that Saved ISIS Captives in Iraq
- Iraq authorises Russia to strike Islamic State inside country
- UPDATE (10-24-15): We are coming for you, Islamic State warns in new Hebrew video to Israelis
- UPDATE (10-24-15): Report: Iraq Authorizes Russia to Strike ISIS Convoys
- UPDATE (10-24-15): Comey: Feds have roughly 900 domestic probes about Islamic State operatives
- UPDATE (10-24-15): US-led forces strike IS-controlled oil field in Syria
- UPDATE (10-24-15): ISIS destroys Mosul University campuses
- UPDATE (10-24-15): ISIS Destroys Iraq's University of Mosul
- UPDATE (10-24-15): ISIS attacks are dramatically increasing over a year into the US-led campaign against the group
- UPDATE (10-24-15): Takeaway chef ‘sought to spread extreme views of Islamic State'
- UPDATE (10-24-15): Plans by U.S. to capture Islamic State’s capital already go awry
- UPDATE (10-24-15): ISIS graduates its first class of junior jihadists in shocking photos
- One American dead in operation to rescue Islamic State captives
- US operation in northern Iraq was launched to prevent "imminent" mass execution of hostages by IS, Pentagon says
- Archbishop calls for British military intervention against Islamic State
- UPDATE (10-24-15): Islamist Parents Who Tried To Join Isis Can Keep Children And Passports, Judge Rules
- UPDATE (10-22-15): Cologne gang ‘stole from churches to fund Isis’
- UPDATE (10-21-15): Christians in Syria SUPPORT Vladimir Putin's bombing campaign, claims church leader
- UPDATE (10-21-15): Christians almost completely destroyed by ISIS fanatics says Aleppo Archbishop
- Four-fifths of Russia's Syria strikes don't target Islamic State: Reuter's analysis
- Another Ancient Monastery in Iraq Risks Extinction
- ISIS as Revolutionary State
- Canada to withdraw jets from IS battle
- UPDATE (10-21-15): With All Eyes On ISIS, Al-Qaida Quietly Rebuilds
- UPDATE (10-21-15): CHP leader accuses gov’t of ‘protecting’ ISIL, laying ground for Ankara massacre
- UPDATE (10-21-15): No Guns, No Money, Ready to hit ISIS HQ
- UPDATE (10-21-15): Iraq says forces recapture refinery town from IS militants
- UPDATE (10-21-15): Nine on the run in ISIL hunt, explosives seized
- UPDATE (10-20-15): ISIS beheads a South Sudanese Christian in latest video
- UPDATE (10-20-15): Priest Escaped From ISIS: You Helped Set Me Free
- UPDATE (10-20-15): How 100,000 Iraqi Christians fled Mosul in one night
- ISIS: What the “Do-Nothing” West Is Doing
- Sydney man arrested in counter-terrorism raids, Omar Ammouche, pleads guilty to firearms charges
- UPDATE (10-22-15): British ISIS fighter carries out deadly suicide bomb attack killing and wounding 80 people in Iraq
- UPDATE (10-19-15): IS release videos praising Palestinian stabbing attacks
- UPDATE (10-19-15): Air strikes 'kill 40 IS militants'
16 October 2015
- UPDATE (10-18-15): Hacker's Kill List Shows ISIL 'Crowdsourcing Terrorism'
- UPDATE (10-18-15): Four Iraqis charged in alleged Swiss ISIS cell
- UPDATE (10-17-15): Christians living in Sweden have been told to 'convert or die' in chilling messages across Gothenburg - a hotbed of ISIS recruitment
- UPDATE (10-17-15): Malaysia arrests Kosovo man for ‘hacking US files for IS'
- UPDATE (10-17-15): Priest reveals Muslim, grateful for Church-provided aid, helped him escape ISIS
- UPDATE (10-17-15): Syrians in Gothenburg scared by Isis graffiti
- UPDATE (10-17-15): Fifty Christians in Qaryatayn held hostage by jihadists have been released
- UPDATE (10-17-15): ISIS are still making £300 MILLION a year from oil despite U.S.-led airstrikes ... and are even selling fuel to rebel groups they are fighting
- Boko Haram urges Somalia's al-Shabab to abandon al-Qaeda, join IS
- Berlin Police Arrest Imam on Terrorism Charges
- UPDATE (10-15-15): Syrian Archbishop: Christians Are ‘Prime Target’ of ISIS’ Religious Cleansing Campaign
- UPDATE (10-15-15): Isis Inc: how oil fuels the jihadi terrorists
- UPDATE (10-15-15): Why a Syrian archbishop was on the verge of tears in Parliament yesterday
- UPDATE (10-15-15): Boko Haram has abducted 45000 from 2012 till date – Lawmaker
- UPDATE (10-15-15): Syrian Priest Reveals That He Escaped From ISIS Captivity
- ISIS Is Coming: Why Militias In Libya Need to Unite - And Fast
- UPDATE (10-14-15): 'My father is in heaven' - Egyptian martyrs get their own church at last
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Texan lied to U.S. agents about allegiance to terrorist group
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Man accused of plotting a beheading during Remembrance Sunday had a cartoon on his phone that said: ‘Really wanna join Isis but I’ll lose my Job Seekers’ Allowance'
- UPDATE (10-14-15): “Top IS leader” captured in Derna
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Women drawn to ISIS 'utopia' despite reports of rape, sex slavery
- UPDATE (10-14-15): IS confirms killing of number two in US airstrike
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Afghan ISIS Branch Makes Inroads in Battle Against Taliban
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Turkish-speaking ISIS members release video calling for "all-out slaughter" in Turkey
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Islamic State Tries to Show It Can Govern in Syria and Iraq
- ISIS sinks to a new low: Yazidi widow reveals how terror group's doctors murdered her wounded husband in hospital with a lethal injection - and 30 others suffered suffered the same sick fate
- US airdrops ammunition to rebels fighting ISIL in Syria
- UPDATE (10-17-15): Swedish beard crew 'loved' Isis police error
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Russia accuses Crimean Tartar leaders of recruiting for Islamic State
- UPDATE (10-14-15): Cardinal Sarah: ISIS and Gender Ideology Are Like 'Apocalyptic Beasts'
- UPDATE (10-13-15): Telegram channel doubles followers to 9,000 in less than 1 week
- UPDATE (10-14-15): ISIS gang threaten to behead officers and inmates at Goulburn jail
- UPDATE (10-13-15): Iraqis claim IS chief Baghdadi's convoy hit in air raid near Syria border
- UPDATE (10-13-15): Christians Are Escaping ISIS' Reign Of Terror Through Modern Underground Railroad To America
- UPDATE (10-13-15): Syrian Monk Abducted by ISIS is Free, Celebrates First Mass
- UPDATE (10-13-15): 8 Islamic State Figures Killed in Air Strike; Baghdadi Not Believed Among Them
- UPDATE (10-13-15): ISIS Suicide Bombers Suspected in the Horrific Ankara Attack
- UPDATE (10-13-15): Iraqi strike kills ISIS leaders but not Baghdadi
- UPDATE (10-11-15): ISIL Threatens to Execute 180 Assyrian Christians
- UPDATE (10-10-15): ISIS captures most territory in months amid Russian strikes
- UPDATE (10-10-15): ISIS’s masked monster: Revealed, the tubby jihadi executioner dubbed The Bulldozer who’s part of terror group’s ‘Chopping Committee’ bringing horror to captured Iraqi towns
- UPDATE (10-10-15): UK gave freed Guantanamo inmate £1million in compensation… now he’s fled to Syria and joined ISIS
- UPDATE (10-10-15): Iraq’s top Catholic Patriarch Sako says the US has a "moral obligation" to fight ISIS
- UPDATE (10-10-15): Religious Leaders, Scholars Ask Obama to Declare ISIS Violence a Genocide
- UPDATE (10-10-15): ISIS Feeds Starving Mother Her 3-Y-O Chid; Yazidi's Blame Obama's Inaction for Ongoing Atrocities
- UPDATE (10-10-15): Islamic State closes in on Syrian city of Aleppo; U.S. abandons rebel training effort
- ISIL kills top Iranian commander in Syria
- Islamic State group seizes villages north of Aleppo city
- UPDATE (10-09-15): ISIS Execute Three Assyrians in Syria
- ISIS soldiers told to rape women 'to make the Muslim'
- Media savvy Islamic State presents grave concern for U.S. at home, admiral says
- UPDATE (10-10-15): O.C. men accused of trying to join Islamic State are charged with financial crimes
- UPDATE (10-08-15): Nuclear black market seeks IS extremists
- Iraq looks to Russia for Islamic State help
- SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Speaks After ISIS Threatens To Murder His Family
- Child ISIS jihadi taunts 'Dog of Rome' Obama to submit to the 'Caliphate' or die
- VIDEO: Russian warships strike ISIS positions in Syria
- Syrian forces begin ground offensive backed by Russia
- Russian Defence Minister Claims Ships In Caspian Sea Struck ISIS Targets In Syria With Cruise Missiles
- ISIS keeps torturing and killing Christians: Why is this merely 'conservative news'?
- UPDATE (10-10-15): Boy has fingertips sliced off and women raped in public - for being Christian
- UPDATE (10-07-15): Pregnant Yazidi sex slaves were forced to undergo barbaric abortions which left them unable to walk or talk, reveals freed ISIS captive who was told, 'Once ten of us rape you, you become Muslim'
- UPDATE (10-07-15): Iraqi Christians Fleeing ISIS Find New Home In Lourdes
- UPDATE (10-07-15): Russian Warplanes Destroy ISIL HQ Near Palmyra, Up to 40 Militants Killed
- UPDATE (10-07-15): ISIS in Syria using mosques as shelters, civilians as shields - Russian Defense Ministry
- UPDATE (10-07-15): US Treasury inquires about ISIS use of Toyota vehicles
- UPDATE (10-07-15): Russian jets hit 12 ISIS targets in Syria, cause panic among extremists
- Italian fighters in Iraq 'hypothesis'
- Italian Tornadoes to bomb ISIS in Iraq
- IS claims wave of attacks in Iraq that killed 65 people
- UPDATE (10-06-15): Syrian Town of Christian Martyrs Licks Its Wounds
- UPDATE (10-06-15): Islamic State ‘blows up Palmyra arch'
- UPDATE (10-06-15): Saudi opposition clerics make sectarian call to jihad in Syria
- UPDATE (10-17-15): 300 Swedes have left to fight in Middle East
- UPDATE (0-07-15): 12 Christians Brutally Executed By ISIS Refused to Renounce Name of Christ
- UPDATE (10-06-15): Congress Claims US Has Failed to Stop Americans from Joining ISIL’s Jihad
- UPDATE (10-06-15): Jordanian MP’s son joins Islamic State, dies in suicide attack
- UPDATE (10-06-15): ISIS may be active in refugee camps: German minister
- Russia launches new wave of air raids in Syria
- Iraqi priest: It's not enough pray for persecuted Christians. Do something.
- UPDATE (10-06-15): 12 Christians Brutally Executed by ISIS Refused to Renounce Name of Christ, Died Praying, Reciting Lord’s Prayer
- UPDATE (10-03-15):Islamic State (ISIS) Claims Responsibility for Chris Harper Mercer Umpqua College Shooting
- UPDATE (10-03-15): Iraqi Chrisitans Escaping ISIS Denied Asylum By U.S. Immigration Authorities
- UPDATE (10-06-15): Islamic State gaining ground on Golan border as moderate rebels wither
- UPDATE (10-03-15): Russian air strikes hit four IS targets inSyria, Russian Defence Ministry confirms
- UPDATE (10-03-15): Report: Russia says it will not join US-led coalition against Islamic State
- UPDATE (10-03-15): Two dozen Iraqi Christians who fled ISIS and crossed into the U.S. seeking religious asylum could be booted out in days
- UPDATE (10-03-15): Life in the 'Islamic State': Spoils for the Rulers, Terror for the Ruled
- UPDATE (10-03-15): ISIS "Were Not Strangers; They Were Our Neighbors"
Thank you Fr. Daren!
ReplyDeleteAlso thank you for linking some local news outlets here for your brothers and sisters here in Hawai'i!
It's very frustrating because I remember the Cold War ending. I remember the Berlin Wall coming down. I remember I didn't understand fully what was going on...only that everyone seemed to have a feeling of victory at that time.
Now, when I think about the situation in the Middle East and Russia's increased involvement, one phrase keeps popping up: "Weren't we done with the Cold War?!?"
Fast forward to today.
As I'm trying to get informed about this situation, I again realized two common denominators in this whole mess:
1. War sucks. It's like a testament to how we failed as humanity.
2. The only people who are truly suffering from this mess are the innocent
civilians who just want to live in peace.
I know I always have to return to the peace of the Holy Spirit...but this mess is so frustrating.
I honestly don't know how much more letters I can write to my political leaders. Our RCIA team always includes prayers for peace in that region as well as for our brothers and sisters going through such horrific circumstances at RCIA gatherings in opening prayer. I always try to give as much as I can to charities or organizations to help because that's the most I can do for now.