Islamic State Ongoing Updates - November 2015

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30 November 2015

• UPDATE (12-02-15): ISIS: The munitions trail
• UPDATE (12-01-15): Benghazi Commission: Obama Admin Gun-Running Scheme Armed Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-01-15): Syria's Newest Rebel Army Has Its Sites on the Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-01-15): Iraqi Forces Prepare Next U.S.-Backed Attack on ISIS, With Mosul on Horizon
• Germany calls for 'special purpose' global alliance against ISIS
• Why ISIS Might Win, Even If It Loses
• ISIS is Obliterating Christian Communities
• Syrians arrested on terror charges at [Bergamo, Italy] airport
• Iraqi army warns of imminent assault on IS-held Ramadi

29 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-30-15): Spain arrested 3 with alleged link to terrorist groups
• UPDATE (11-30-15): Predatory Islamic State Wrings Money From Those It Rules
• 3 ISIS-linked militants eliminated in Russia's Dagestan
• Refugees speak out: 'If we stay in Syria, we have 3 choices - serve Assad, or serve ISIS, or die'
• U.S., allies conduct 22 strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military
• Germany needs 1,200 troops for Syrian anti-ISIS campaign - Chief of Staff
• ISIS Launches New Supply Route on Syria-Iraq Border 

28 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-29-15): No US airstrikes in Syria since Russia deployed S-400 systems
• UPDATE (11-29-15): Gazan who murdered an Italian peace activist dies fighting for ISIS
• UPDATE (11-29-15): US urges Turkey to close off its Syrian border to ISIS - media
• UPDATE (11-29-15): Morocco arrests Turks suspected of Islamic State links
• UPDATE (11-29-15): Bomb-rigged mass grave of ISIS victims found in Iraq
• UPDATE (11-29-15): ISIS affiliate in Egypt claims responsibility for killing Giza policemen
• UPDATE (11-29-15): Clash of 2 terror groups: Al-Qaeda suicide bomber kills top ISIS commander in Syria 

27 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-30-15): Suspects arrested in Berlin had links to ISIS
• UPDATE (11-28-15): FBI using elite surveillance teams to track at least 48 high-risk ISIS suspects
• Source: ISIS cut off ears of 70 of its elements in Nineveh
• Iraqi police arrests ISIS mutfi in al-Jelam east of Salahuddin

26 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-29-15): Italy Spends $1 Billion Increasing Culture to Combat ISIS
  
• UPDATE (11-27-15): Tribal fighters shoot down drone belonging to ISIS in Barwana, Anbar
• UPDATE (11-27-15): Marco Rubio 'Supportive' of Congress Issuing Formal Declaration of War Against Islamic State
• UPDATE (11-27-15): From Indonesia, a Muslim Challenge to the Ideology of the Islamic State
• UPDATE (11-27-15): Germany to support military campaign against ISIS after French appeal
• UPDATE (11-27-15): Tunisia Apprehends 30 People Suspected to Be Connected to Terrorism, Identifies Man Responsible for Bombing
• Inside secret underground ISIS bomb-lair found littered with US-made guns and drugs
• Iraqi forces cut last IS supply line to Ramadi by retaking bridge
• PM's Plan to Fight IS: Fantasy, Not Strategy 

25 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-26-15): Islamic State Radicalizes 'Thousands' in United States
• UPDATE (11-26-15): ISIS taunt America in new video urging them to 'bring it on' as they vow to bring fire on their enemies once '80 banners' have been raised against them and mock US soldier suicides
• UPDATE (11-26-15): ISIS fighters invoke 'our Lord' in fresh threat of more attacks on France
• UPDATE (11-26-15): Ten Assyrian Christians released by ISIS
• UPDATE (11-26-15): U.S. leads 23 air strikes against Islamic State -statement
• UPDATE (11-26-15): Tunisia blast: Explosion hits bus carrying presidential guards
  
• UPDATE (11-26-15): U.S. sanctions businessman helping Syrian government buy oil from Islamic State
• ISIL claims deadly attack in Egypt's Sinai
• Wait, both? Obama says Russia needs to target Daesh . . . and ISIL
• Under Iraqi town [of Sinjar], IS militants built network of tunnels

24 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-26-15): Two Weeks After Calling Islamic State Contained,' Obama Says It Poses 'Serious Threat to All of Us'
• UPDATE (11-25-15): 'Soon there will be time of beheading you' - Video address to Georgians released on behalf of Islamic State
• Lebanese Archbishop: We Have Always Known ISIS Is a Danger to the Whole World
• Al-Shabab wants IS to back off in east Africa
• MSNBC's 'No-Fly List Is Islamaphobic' Poster Boy Arrested in Turkey as Part of ISIS Cell

23 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-24-15): Chicago Police Investigating ISIS Threat
• UPDATE (11-24-15): Kurdish forces dig in just outside ISIS headquarters in Raqqa
• 'We Are Coming': Threatening Pro-Islamic State Messages Found on U.S. College Campus in Youngstown, Ohio
• Source: ISIS executes 10 civilians, hang their bodies on electricity poles, southwest of Kirkuk
• Spain arrests man accused of recruiting inmates for ISIS
• Army captures western towns from ISIS

22 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-23-15): Paris Attacks and Other Assaults Seen As Evidence of a Shift By ISIS
• UPDATE (11-23-15): Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on troops in eastern Yemen
• UPDATE (11-23-15): 'Not in my name': Muslims rally in Italy
• UPDATE (11-23-15): Iraq says its forces advance towards Ramadi
• UPDATE (11-23-15): 12 ISIS elements killed including senior leaders in coalition strike in Kirkuk
• UPDATE (11-23-15): 760 German citizens have joined ISIS, 200 returned home - Interior Minister
• UPDATE (11-23-15): Iran arrests ISIS-linked cell near Iraq border
• UPDATE (11-23-15): Islamic State counter-attack in Iraq's Saladin province

21 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-23-15): 'Not in my name' - Italy's Muslims rally against terrorism
• UPDATE (11-23-15): Pentagon Expands Inquiry Into Intelligence on ISIS Surge
• UPDATE (11-22-15): ISIS Risk in the U.S. Is Homegrown Numbers Show
• UPDATE (11-22-15): FBI: Officials taking report about ISIS threat seriously at Philips Arena 
• UPDATE (11-22-15): American-Muslims rally against ISIS in D.C.
• UPDATE (11-22-15): Turkey Arrests Belgian ISIS Suspect at Site of G20 Summit 
• UPDATE (11-22-15): IS claims deadly Iraq mosque attack
• UPDATE (11-22-15): Anonymous Says ISIS Plans Against 'Paris and the World' Sunday 
• UPDATE (11-22-15):  
• UN backs 'all necessary measures' against IS
• Targeting children: ISIS uses dolls as booby-traps to attack mass Shia pilgrims
• Muslim-majority Malaysia, Obama vow no safe haven for IS

20 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-22-15): Ideology or theology? Is it time for Western journalists to start taking ISIS at its word?
• UPDATE (11-22-15): The Expanding Web of Connections Among the Paris Attackers
• UPDATE (11-21-15): Islamic State Authorities Ban Syrian Banknotes
• UPDATE (11-21-15): 4 civilians likely killed in U.S. airstrike against ISIS in Iraq
• UPDATE (11-21-15): Islamic State claims 2 attacks in Yemen killing at least 15
• Italy arrests Syrians with false passports: report
• Malaysian police report warns of suicide bombers ahead of Asean summit
• Kuwait crackdown on 'IS-supporting extremist cell'
• Syrian Community Leader Says ISL Already In the US, Waiting to Attack

19 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-23-15): Islamic State presence in the U.S.: It's 'the new normal,' FBI director says
• UPDATE (11-23-15): Jailed: Terror teen blew student loan on Syria trip to become ISIS foot soldier
• UPDATE (11-20-15): U.S. Investigators Struggle to Track Homegrown ISIS Suspects
• UPDATE (11-20-15): ISIS Is Developing Chemical Weapons Using Scientists from Iraq and Syria, US Intelligence Officials Warn
• UPDATE (11-20-15): 'ISIS branch' seeking to produce chemical weapons - Iraq and US intel 
• UPDATE (11-20-15): 3 ISIS field commanders in Aleppo province killed in Russian airstrikes
• UPDATE (11-20-15): Christians Uprooted by ISIS Find Fruitfulness in Suffering
• UPDATE (11-20-15): The Islamic State wasn't the deadliest terror group last year. Boko Haram was
• UPDATE (11-20-15): Chicago-area cousins to plead guilty in attack plot
• UPDATE (11-20-15): 7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue of ISIS' Magazine
• Kurds and Christians Fight Back Against ISIS in Syria
• Vatican cardinal characterizes Islamic State as satanic
• Italy hunting five terror suspects after FBI tip-off
• ISIS claims attack on Italian priest in Bangladesh
• The Numbers: Lives Claimed by Islamic State Militants This Year
• Why U.S. Efforts to Cut Off Islamic State's Funds Have Failed

18 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-20-15): 'ISIS cell operating out of Winterthur [Switzerland] mosque'
• UPDATE (11-19-15): ISIS Flogs the Crusades Myth
• UPDATE (11-19-15): Russia hits 206 ISIS targets in Syria after confirming bomb downed passenger plane over Sinai
• UPDATE (11-19-15): We'll raise flag over Vatican says ISIS
• UPDATE (11-19-15): 5 ISIS Senior leaders killed in artillery bombardment west of Ramadi
• UPDATE (11-19-15): In Rise of ISIS, No Single Missed Key but Many Strands of Blame
• UPDATE (11-19-15): Report: Turkey Arrests Eight ISIS Terrorists Posing as Refugees
• UPDATE (11-19-15): Report: FBI tips Italy to possible targets in Rome, Milan, no concrete threats
• Boko Haram kills more people than ISIS as total hits historic high
• India warns of IS threat, tightens vigil at French, US missions

17 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-26-15): Libya's civil war has allowed Islamic State to consolidate its position there
• UPDATE (11-20-15): How the Islamic State declared war on the world
• UPDATE (11-20-15): Mass graves of women killed 'too old to be ISIL sex slaves' - this is what we're up against
• UPDATE (11-18-15): U.S. Destroys 116 ISIS Fuel Trucks in One Airstrike
  
• UPDATE (11-18-15): Couple planned ISIL suicide bombing of Westfield or Tube, court hears
• UPDATE (11-18-15): Death of 'ISIL commander' in southern Syria a blow to the group
• UPDATE (11-18-15): ISIS Is Likely Responsible for Nearly 1,000 Civilian Deaths Outside Iraq and Syria
• UPDATE (11-18-15): Tunisia Sousee: 'new plot to attack resort' foiled
• UPDATE (11-18-15): ISIS so-called Information Minister killed in airstrike west of Ramadi, says Khalidiya Council
• 4 Ways ISIS Grounds Its Actions in Religion - And Why It Matters
• Islamic State is plotting deadly cyber-attacks - George Osborne
• IS attacks: 'A building crescendo' warns ex-Nato chief
• Italy to ban drones amid Jubilee terror threat
• US-led air strikes target more Islamic State oil facilities
• Up to 30,000 foreign fighters have gone to Syria and Iraq since 2011 - Report
• RAF Bombers Attack IS Terrorists in Iraq
• ISIS threats prompt closure of Rome's airspace
• USS Harry Truman deployed to strike ISIS in wake of Paris attack
• In Suspects' Brussels Neighborhood, a History of Petty Crimes and Missed Chances 

16 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-24-15): ISIS has a strategy of 'escalating provocations'
• UPDATE (11-20-15): War with ISIS: Islamic militants have army of 200,000, claims senior Kurdish leader
• UPDATE (11-17-15): Over 20% of Refugees to EU May Have Links to ISIL - Syrian Envoy to India
• UPDATE (11-17-15): ISIS Just Named D.C. as Possible Target for Terrorist Attacks. Has the Risk Increased?
• UPDATE (11-17-15): UK is hiring 1,900 more spies to fight ISIS in the wake of Paris attack
• UPDATE (11-17-15): Dozens of ISIS elements killed in airstrikes by Iraqi Army Aviation north of Tikrit
• UPDATE (11-17-15): 45 ISIS elements killed, wounded in western Mosul
• UPDATE (11-17-15): Italy says Islamic State could attack Rome with drones during Holy Year
  
• UPDATE (11-17-15): An Iraqi Town Is Retaken From ISIS, And Looting And Retribution Begin
• UPDATE (11-17-15): Islamic State Video Threatens Attacks in Washington, Rome
• UPDATE (11-17-15): Where ISIS gets its money
• UPDATE (11-17-15): For the Islamic State, paraxysms of violence portends apocalypse
• UPDATE (11-17-15): Top Vatican diplomat backs use of force in wake of Paris attacks
• UPDATE (11-17-15): ISIS Has Help Desk for Terrorists Staffed Around the Clock
• ISIS Is Using Everything From Encryption to Play Stations to Avoid Being Spied Upon
• Mastermind behind Paris attacks identified as active ISIS executioner from Belgium - reports
• A new Islamic State video threatens a Paris-style attack on Washington
• Source: ISIS executes 30 civilians in Nineveh
• Paris terror attacks: ISIS releases chilling video warning countries involved in Syria airstrikes will suffer same fate
• Paris 'Mastermind' Told ISIS Magazine that Bungling Police Officers Let Him Escape
• Iran's army faces ISIS threat at Afghan, Iraqi borders
• Paris attacks 'planned from Syria' - France PM Valls
• 'Geographically speaking': White House defends Obama's 'ISIS contained' claim on eve of France attacks
• Wife of Australian IS recruit pleads guilty

15 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-16-15): Britain next to be attacked by jihadists, supporters claim
  
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Britain could be next on ISIS target list, ISIS supporters warn; Washington, D.C., Rome also targeted
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Six arrested for twin suicide bombings in Beirut
• UPDATE (11-16-15): 22 civilian injured in ISIS shelling on Amiriyat Fallujah, Mayor of District
• UPDATE (11-16-15): France Strikes ISIS Targets in Syria in Retaliation for Attacks
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Suicide bomber blows himself up during anti-ISIS raid in G20-host Turkey
• UPDATE (11-16-15): France Targets ISIS in Airstrikes
• UPDATE (11-16-15): U.S. Official: ISIS May Have Had Help to Attack Paris
• UPDATE (11-16-15): France bombs Islamic State HQ, hunts attacker who got away
• UPDATE (11-16-15): How We Underestimated ISIL
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Inquiry Finds Mounting Proof of Syria Link to Paris Attacks
• UPDATE (11-16-15): British jihadist may have planned Paris-style attack in Istanbul
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Turkey foiled Istanbul terror on same day as Paris attacks: official
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Iraq says it shared information that France, U.S., Iran were targets
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Iraq warned of attacks before Paris assault
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Iraq warned U.S.-led coalition countries of imminent assault before Paris attack
• UPDATE (11-16-15): Before Paris Attacks, Iraq Authorities Warned of Imminent ISIS Threat, Turkey Foiled Istanbul Terrorist Plot
• ISIS Militants Infiltrate Into YPG-Held Area Near North Raqqa
• Paris attacks: Omar Ismail Mostefai identified as assailant
• Paris attacks: Suicide bomber identified; ISIS claims responsibility for 129 dead
• Paris attacks: Drumbeat of terror precedes slaughter 

14 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-16-15): Paris Bloodshed May Be the Latest of Many ISIS Attacks Around the World
• UPDATE (11-15-15): Face of a Paris killer: First picture of ISIS suicide bomber as it's revealed two jihadis sneaked into Europe via Greece by posing as as refugees
• UPDATE (11-15-15): Kurds in Iraq Face Fast and Erratic Threat in ISIS Suicide Drivers
• Kawood announces killing 250 ISIS elements and destruction of ISIS headquarters in Albu Hayat
• The Hunt for ISIS' French Chief 'Executioner'
• Kerry: Assad has cut his own deal with ISIS
• Paris Attacks Suggest Shift in Islamic State's Strategy
• U.S. officials: Leader of Islamic State in Libya believed killed in U.S. airstrike
• Three Teams of Coordinated Attackers Carried Out Assault on Paris, Officials Say; Hollande Blames ISIS
• Mass Grave of Yazidis Unearthed Near Iraq's Sinjar
• Paris Attacks: ISIS Claims Responsibility in 129 Deaths; Belgium Makes Arrests
• While Everyone Watched Paris Fall Prey to Terrorism, ISIS Bombed Another City - And Killed 43 People
• Paris attacks: 3 teams launched assaults, prosecutor says
• Paris Attacks Raise Questions About What French Authorities Knew And Why They Failed
• Paris Attacker With Explosive Vest Was Blocked From Entering Soccer Stadium
• Libya IS head 'killed in US air strike' 
• Obama Nine Hours Before Paris Terror Attack: "We've Contained ISIS"
• Just released: full text of Islamic State statement on "Blessed onslaught in Paris against the Crusader Nation of France"
• Holder of Syrian passport found in Paris passed through Greece
• German-held suspect 'linked to Paris attackers'
• Man arrested in Bavaria by German police 'linked to French capital attacks'
• Italy raises terror alert after Paris attacks
• Hollande blames Islamic State for act of war
• 'You will not live in peace' - Islamic State warns France in new video
• Kurdish Forces Kill 300 ISIL Terrorists, Free 28 Villages in Sinjar 

13 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-14-15): At Least 120 Dead in Paris After Multiple Terror Attacks; French President Blames Islamic State
• UPDATE (11-14-15): ISIS Genocide Victims Do Not Include Christians, the State Department Is Poised to Rule
• UPDATE (11-14-15): Suspected Terrorist Arrested: 'I Am From ISIS'
• UPDATE (11-14-15): ISIS Adherents Celebrate "Paris In Flames," 140 Feared Dead
• Kurdish forces seize control of Sinjar from ISIL
• Iraq Intends to Strengthen Anti-ISIL Cooperation with Russia
• Kerry 'confident' Kurdish forces will free Sinjar from IS group 'in days'
• 'Jihadi John' - the face of ISIS - killed in U.S. drone strike, 'evaporating in flawless clean hit'
• Islamic State in Libya fights to emulate Iraq, Syria success
• 'Jihadi John' Is Targeted by U.S. Airstrike in ISIS Stronghold
• Beirut attacks: Islamic State claims it carried out bombing 

12 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-17-15): ISIS in Sinai held back by Egypt's Bedouins
• UPDATE (11-14-15): Akron man arrested or terrorism charge, accused of soliciting the killing of military members
• UPDATE (11-13-15): Bald jihadist nabbed getting hair transplant
• UPDATE (11-13-15): ISIS threatens Russia in new video
• UPDATE (11-13-15): Beirut Blasts: ISIS Claims Responsibility for Deadly Dual Explosions That Killed 43
• US-led airstrikes kill 60-70 ISIS militants in support of Kurdish offensive in Iraq: US military
• Iraqi Kurds Reach Sinjar Road, Cutting Islamic State Supply Line
• Captured Charfeddine attackers linked to Islamic State
• Merano was 'crossroads for jihadists'
• Islamic State committed genocide in Iraq against Yazidis - Report
• European terror-recruiting cell linked to ISIS broken up
• European jihadist network' crackdown: Four Britons among 15 arrested over bid to 'strike diplomats'
• 16 ISIS-Linked Suspects Held in Europe-Wide Sweep: Italy Officials
• U.S. weighs 'genocide' label for IS in Iraq - and more than a word may be at stake
• Kurds and U.S. Open Offensive to Cut ISIS Supply Route
• Kurds launch offensive to retake IS-held Iraqi town Sinjar
• Battle to break ISIS siege of Kweires airbase caught on camera [GRAPHIC VIDEO] 

11 November 2015

• In a major breakthrough, Syrian army frees Aleppo air base from ISIL control
• ISIS arrests 4 doctors in Shirqat on charges of cooperation with the government
• 13 ISIS elements killed, 82 IEDs detonated in Haditha District in western Ramadi

10 November 2015

• 7 ISIS elements killed after storming their headquarters south of Mosul
• 115 ISIS elements killed in aerial bombardment in western Anbar
• Govt forces halt 2-year ISIS siege of key airbase in northern Syrian - media

9 November 2015

• UPDATE(11-10-15): U.S. Spies Root for an ISIS-Russia War
• UPDATE (11-10-15): Security forces destroy two ISIS camps in Hamrin mountains
• UPDATE (11-10-15): Dozens of ISIS elements killed in preliminary bombardment to cleanse Radami
• UPDATE (11-10-15): ISIS assaulted on 7 universities, we were able to open alternative sites
• UPDATE (11-10-15): Kurdish anti-ISIS Stronghold in Iraq Under Threat
• Expert Says ISIS Video Does Not Show Execution of Children
• The most sickening ISIS video yet: Shocking film shows jihadist barbarians massacring 200 Syrian children in mass execution
• Why some Christians in northern Iraq are choosing to stay and fight
• Pentagon petty cash: $5mn for Iraqi civilians killed in anti-ISIS strikes could cover 2,000 people
• ISIS Yet To Recognize Boko Haram - Experts
• How a Syrian mountain village was liberated - but ISIS fighters are only 1km away
• Syrian Troops Kill Almost 60 Islamists in Failed ISIL Attack on Airbase

8 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-09-15): Anti-ISIS fighter prevented from speaking at University College London
• UPDATE (11-09-15): ISIS 'cyber caliphate' hacks 54,000 Twitter accounts and posts phone numbers of heads of the CIA and FBI in revenge for the drone attack that killed a British extremist
• UPDATE (11-09-15): Sicily police arrest convicted terrorist Ben Nasr Mehdi who entered Italy on migrant boat
• UPDATE (11-09-15): Anti-ISIL air strikes are in need of greater guidance
• UPDATE (11-09-15): Islamic State Bombs Christian Convent in Iraq 

7 November 2015

• 37 Assyrian Christians released from ISIS captivity 

6 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-09-15): Survey: Alarming Portion of Syrian Immigrants in Europe Are Islamic State Sympathizers
• UPDATE (11-07-15): Christians of Sadad Flee ISIS Advance
• UPDATE (11-07-15): Thousands of Syrian Christians are fleeing ISIS assault
• UPDATE (11-07-15): Islamic State threatens key Syrian Christian center, thousands flee
• What an ISIS Chemical Strike Did to One Syrian Family
• OPCW finds chemical weapons use during rebels vs ISIS fighting in Syria
• British spies uncovered ISIL bomb plot as Britons prepare to leave the resort

5 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-07-15): Islamic State plotting to infiltrate, destabilize Balkans, intelligence suggests
• UPDATE (11-07-15): Youth charged with terrorism offense appears in Branden court
• UPDATE (11-06-15): 35 ISIS militants killed, wounded in airstrikes west and south of Nineveh
• UPDATE (11-06-15): Moscow: Baghdad did not ask us to conduct airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq
• UPDATE (11-06-15): Those who've stayed - what now for Christians in Syria and Iraq?
• UPDATE (11-06-15): France to Deploy Aircraft Carrier in Anti-ISIS Fight in Syria, Iraq
• UPDATE (11-06-15): Sharm el-Sheik flights shutdown triggered when British spies uncovered ISIL bomb plot after Russian air crash
• UPDATE (11-06-15): Kurdish Forces Request More U.S. Support in Fight Against ISIS
• UPDATE (11-06-15): Americans Agree on Little About ISIS - Except the U.S. Is Losing the War
• UPDATE (11-06-15): U.K. deals blow to U.S.-led fight against ISIS as Cameron drops plan to join Syria airstrikes
• UPDATE (11-06-15): US troops in ISIS cross hairs
• On the run from ISIS: Stories from Iraq
• Bosnian imam jailed for 7 years for recruiting Islamic State fighters 

4 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-05-15): Tortured by Islamic State, rescued before execution: freed hostages recount ordeal
• UPDATE (11-05-15): ISIS Bomb May Have Downed Russian Jet, U.S. Officials Say
• UPDATE (11-05-15): U.S. Intelligence Suggests Islamic State May Have Planted Bomb on Doomed Russian Passenger Jet: Report
• UPDATE (11-05-15): U.S. officials believe ISIS planted planted bomb on Russian plane
• UPDATE (11-05-15): Peshmerga announces the death, injury, and loss of about 8,000 fighters during war with ISIS
• 40 ISIS elements killed in the cleansing battles of Ramadi
• ISIS Stages Rare Incursion Into Kurdish-Controlled Iraq 

3 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-05-15): ISIS sends message to Putin
• UPDATE (11-04-15): Swedish News Site Editor: Flood Country with ISIS So Anti-Immigrant Swedes Are Exiled
• UPDATE (11-04-15): Russian airstrikes not hurting but actually helping ISIS - UK defence analyst
• Islamic State battles Iraqi forces near Samarra
• Security forces kill 58 ISIS elements, dismantle 150 explosive devices north of Ramadi
• Federal Police kills 12 ISIS elements in security operations east of Ramadi
• Russian jets hit ISIS in Palmyra
• Al-Qaida: ISIS divides Muslims instead of targeting Jews and Christians
• Spain terror alert: Three men 'set to commit Charlie Hebdo attack' arrested in dawn raids
• Slighting Syria's Christians
• Syrian Army Kills Over 25 ISIL militants in Homs Province
• U.S. Cut Cash to Iraq on Iran, ISIS Fears

2 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-03-15): ISIS Advances, En Route to Conquer Christian Town Despite Western Airstrikes
• UPDATE (11-03-15): ISIS claims first beheadings in Turkey
• UPDATE (11-03-15): Painting a Story of Martyrdom When the Blood Has Just Flowed
• UPDATE (11-03-15): New U.S.-Backed Alliance to Counter ISIS in Syria Falters
• UPDATE (11-03-15): Al-Zawahiri Calls for an al-Qaeda-ISIL Axis Against Russia & US
• Details Revealed in Chilling Plot to Kill Anti-ISIS Activists in Turkey
• CF-18s attack Islamic State position in Iraq
• ISIS takes Syrian town [Maheen] as fighting intensifies

1 November 2015

• UPDATE (11-03-15): Turkish president Erdogan: I can't condemn the Islamic State for shooting down the Russian airplane as it is the natural outcome of Putin's support for Assad
• UPDATE (11-02-15): ISIS executes 12 children in Mosul for fleeing from the training, says Mamouzini
• UPDATE (11-02-15): Iraq army forces enter Daesh-held Ramadi
• Number of ISIS elements, including sniper, killed east of Ramadi
• Canon Andrew White: 'Vicar of Baghdad' on leading a church in Iraq and being in the crosshairs of ISIS
• ISIS in Afghanistan: School of Jihad
• Islamic State advances in Homs Province
• Turkey prevented the entry of 30,000 ISIS elements to Iraq, says Qaamajka
• U.S., allies launch 9 air strikes in Syria, 16 in Iraq
• New assaults on ISIS in Iraq and in Syria
• 9 killed as Islamic extremists attack Somalia hotel
• Kerry to prod Central Asian nations on rights amid ISIS threat
• Syrian rebels launch fresh offensive against ISIS