Islamic State Ongoing Updates - February 2016

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29 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): ISIS Vows to Continue 'Cutting Off Heads' After 70 Are Killed in Baghdad Bloodbath
• UPDATE (03-01-16): Swiss trial begins of alleged Islamic State terror cell
• UPDATE (03-01-16): Belgian police find evidence that ISIS is looking to build dirty bomb
• UPDATE (03-01-16): At least 38 killed in Iraq funeral bombing
• Swiss trial begins of alleged Islamic State terror cell 

28 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): ISIS suicide bombers blow up dozens of shoppers in Baghdad market
• UPDATE (03-01-16): Trial starts for Air Force veteran accused of supporting ISIS
• UPDATE (02-29-16): Baghdad suffers multiple Islamic State bomb and gun attacks

27 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): Car Bomb Explodes in Pattani, Just Days after Gen. Chavalit Says IS Affiliate in Deep South [Thailand]
• UPDATE (02-29-16): 600 ISIS fighters flee from Fallujah to Mosul
• UPDATE (02-29-16): ISIS transfer Yazidi women Tal Afar district to Mosul
• UPDATE (02-29-16): ISIS military commander killed in militant attack in Sharqat, Salahuddin
• UPDATE (02-29-16): ISIS executes 12 fighters for fleeing from Anbar battles 

26 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): 'We've got jihad': Man whose Facebook page shows support for Islamic State is arrested for assault after earlier loitering around a police station
• Alleged ISIS recruiter arrested in Italy
• As truce nears, Syria activists report heavy Russian strikes
• Libyan forces battle Islamic State in Sabratha, three killed
• House intel committee blasts Pentagon over ISIS files 

25 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): Pak Army gives weapons, training to IS in Afghanistan: Former fighters
• UPDATE (03-01-16): House Intelligence Committee chairman says personnel at U.S. Central Command deleted files and emails amid allegations that intelligence assessments were altered to exaggerate progress against Islamic State militants
  
• UPDATE (02-26-16): ISIS Attacks Hit Baghdad
• UPDATE (02-26-16): Report: Most IS bombs made with civilian components
• UPDATE (02-26-16): Dozens of ISIS fighters surrender to the Kurdish Peshmerga northern Iraq
• UPDATE (02-26-16): Masked ISIS gunman arrests senior ISIS leaders by order of Baghdadi

24 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): ISIS Grows in Libya
• UPDATE (03-01-16): ISIL comes to Buffalo
• UPDATE (02-26-16): Islamic State bomb supply chain includes firms in 20 countries: report
• UPDATE (02-26-16): US War Against ISIS: Contractors in Iraq Increase Amid Anti-Islamic State Fight
• UPDATE (02-26-16): How Islamic State's Secret Banking Network Prospers
• UPDATE (02-26-16): ISIS attacks spike in Syria with help from Russian air cover, report says
• Federal police forces destroy dangerous tunnels for ISIS in Ramadi

23 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): Former Guantanamo detainee among 4 arrested in Spain, Morocco for Islamic State ties
• UPDATE (02-24-16): How serious is the ISIL threat in Libya?
• UPDATE (02-24-16): U.S.-Backed Militias Fighting Each Other, Not Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-24-16): ISIS executes 4 people in Hawija, calls residents to renew 'repentance'
• UPDATE (02-24-16): Spain arrests four with suspected link to Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-24-16): Former Guantanamo detainee among 4 arrested in Spain, Morocco for Islamic State ties
• UPDATE (02-24-16): ISIS destroyed 113 bridges and roads, says Authority for Roads and Bridges  

22 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): Islamic State suicide attacks kill more than 150 as U.S., Russia press Syria truce
• UPDATE (03-01-16): Islamic hate preacher who recruit ISIS poster girls traveled in Europe 'like a popstar on tour as he brainwashed teenagers'
• UPDATE (02-24-16): Italy to allow US drones to fly out of Sicily airbase for attacks on ISIS
• UPDATE (02-24-16): Italy: American Drones to Get Base, Official Says
• UPDATE (02-24-16): IS 'Benefits' From Rise In Russian Airstrikes
• ISIS claims responsibility for Sayyidah Zainab attacks
• UN: IS bombs in Iraq's Ramadi hinder return of displaced
• ISIS releases 43 Assyrian Christian hostages in Syria
• IS frees Syrian Christians held since 2015 for ransom

21 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-22-16): 40 ISIS fighters including including suicide bombers killed in Baiji
• UPDATE (02-22-16): Homs and Damascus bomb blasts kill 140
• UPDATE (02-22-16): Missing radioactive material found dumped in south Iraq
• UPDATE (02-22-16): Security forces arrest so-called ISIS prince in Nineveh Province
• UPDATE (02-22-16): This map reveals the full extent of ISIS's cultural destruction
• UPDATE (02-22-16): Islamic State Reasserts Control Over Fallujah
• UPDATE (02-22-16): Sudden retreats don't mean that ISIL is defeated
• UPDATE (02-22-16): U.S. Scrambles to Contain Growing ISIS Threat in Libya
• Dozens of ISIS militants escape Iraq's Mosul under fighting pressure

20 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): Islamic State Hands $10K to Winner of Caliphate's First Quran Contest
• UPDATE (02-21-16): 5,000 ISIS militants trained in Syria & Iraq walk free in Europe - Europol
• UPDATE (02-21-16): The Afghan district stuck between IS and the Taliban
• UPDATE (02-21-16): ISIS new Wali of Anbar killed in aerial bombing west of Ramadi
• UPDATE (02-21-16): ISIS child kisses father goodbye before suicide mission in chilling new video
• UPDATE (02-21-16): Iraq tribesmen battle IS inside Fallujah for second day

19 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): Ties to ISIS in the Ozarks
• UPDATE (02-21-16): ISIS sending children to die at unprecedented rate, report warns
• UPDATE (02-21-16): Islamic State camp in Libya attacked by US planes
• UPDATE (02-21-16): 5,000 ISIS jihadists at large in the EU: Europol boss warns huge numbers of terrorists have slipped back into European capitals after being trained in Iraq and Syria
• UPDATE (02-21-16): The Islamic State's latest shock tactic: Showing children on suicide missions
• UPDATE (02-21-16): US 'targets Tunisia beach massacre organiser' in strikes against Islamic State in Libya
• At Least 89 Child Soldiers Were Killed Fighting for ISIS Last Year 

18 February 2016

• UPDATE (03-01-16): Gang printing fake passports for ISIS jihadists smashed in huge police raid
• UPDATE (02-21-16): ISIS goes global:Over 70 attacks in 20 countries
• UPDATE (02-19-16): Obama Refuses to Hit ISIS's Libyan Capital
• UPDATE (02-19-16): Islamic State finds 'diminishing returns' on Twitter: report
• UPDATE (02-19-16): Stolen Radioactive Material Hunted in ISIS-Ravaged Iraq: Officials
• UPDATE (02-19-16): IS Camp Speicher massacre: Iraq sentences 40 to death
• UPDATE (02-19-16): ISIS kills commander of Federal Police's regiment west of Ramadi
• UPDATE (02-19-16): 15yo boy beheaded by ISIS for listening to pop music - report
• UPDATE (02-19-16): The Islamic State's Diminishing Returns on Twitter: How suspensions are limiting the social networks of English-speaking ISIS supporters

17 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-19-16): 'We have proof' Turkey backs ISIS & other terrorists - Kurdish commander
• Helicopter downed in Iraq; Islamic State claims responsibility
• Fears of Islamic State Dirty Bomb Rise After 'Highly Dangerous' Radioactive Material Stolen in Iraq 
• IS shoots down Iraqi army helicopter killing one

16 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-17-16): Islamic State 'hit by cash crisis in its capital Raqqa'
• CIA Chief Expects ISIS To Attempt American Attack
• Tests confirm ISIL used mustard gas in Iraq
• ISIS trades in Mosul's residents organs
• Belgium detains 10 people in IS recruitment investigation 

15 February 2016

• ISIS militants used mustard gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq - chemical weapon watchdog
• ISIS issued Fatwa to execute anyone celebrating Valentine's Day in Mosul

14 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-15-16): ISIS military commander of Kartan killed in coalition strike east of Ramadi  

13 February 2016

• ISIS Fighters Seize Civilian Homes, Shave Beards to Avoid Airstrikes
• ISIS prepares to attack Barwana area in Haditha district 

12 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-16-16): ISIS extremists stone four women to death on charges of 'committing adultery' 

11 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-16-16): Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty in Islamic State Case  

10 February 2016 

• UPDATE (02-16-16): DSS arrests Nigerian student recruiting terrorists for ISIS
• UPDATE (02-16-16): Sickening new ISIS 'Jihadi Junior' video shows British youngster blowing up four 'spies' in a car
• UPDATE (02-13-16): Islamic State recruiter, Boko Haram militants arrested in Nigeria

9 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-16-16): 'Islamic State Commander' Found Living as Refugee in Rural German Village
• UPDATE (02-16-16): U.S. Official Ratchets Down Expectations on Retaking Mosul From Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-13-16): Islamic State unlikely to be ejected from Mosul in 2016: U.S. general
• UPDATE (02-13-16): ISIS, in a First, Says It Was Behind Attack in Syrian Capital
• Iraq Retakes Areas Around Ramadi, Opens Road to Baghdad
• ISIS executes female bank employee in central Mosul
• Security forces open Ramadi-Baghdad road after liberating Ramadi
• Iraq deploys thousands of troops north of country to retake Mosul
• Boko Haram Is Not ISIS, But It's Still a Problem for the West
• Director of National Intelligence Warns ISIL Leaders Are Ready to 'Strike' U.S. Again
• Obama to propose $200 million to battle Islamic State in Africa

8 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-16-16): European bishops' commission welcome European Parliament's condemnation of ISIS
• UPDATE (02-09-16): Intel agencies had hints of ISIS plot before Paris attacks, source says
• UPDATE (02-09-16): Canada IS airstrikes: Trudeau announces 22 February end date
• UPDATE (02-09-16): ISIS 'terrorist' cell arrested in Erbil, says Kurdistan Council
• UPDATE (02-09-16): ISIS arrests 35 people in Mosul including journalist
  
• UPDATE (02-09-16): Members of Hawaii Air National Guard Deployed to Help in Fight Against ISIS
• UPDATE (02-09-16): Another member of ISIS execution squad reportedly identified 

7 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-09-16): Seven arrested in Spain over suspected jihad links
• UPDATE (02-09-16): Broken Land

6 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-16-16): FBI: Dearborn Heights man plotted ISIS attacks on church
• UPDATE (02-16-16): Islamic State on rise in Libya: 'Syria all over again'
• UPDATE (02-16-16): Islamic State is no longer so formidable on the battlefield
• FBI says Michigan man pledged support to ISIS, father thwarted mass shooting at church
• German security chief warns of Islamic State militants posing as refugees
• ISIS releases new video featuring 10-years-old child executing unarmed prisoner
• Army forces foil ISIS attack in Thurtar area north of Ramadi 

5 February 2016

• German intel gets over 100 tip-offs on ISIS militants among refugees - report 

4 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-16-16): Ex-Army recruit pleads guilty to trying to bomb Fort Riley in Kansas
• UPDATE (02-06-16): The Islamic State's Targeting Strategy in Egypt
• UPDATE (02-05-16): German police arrest Algerian suspects over 'Berlin IS plot'
• ISIS in America
• European Parliament Recognizes ISIS Killing of Religious Minorities as Genocide
• ISIS forces decrease in Iraq and Syria, rise in Libya: US official
• Size of ISIS army 'remains the same' since last year, US official says 

3 February 2016

• ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's nephew killed airstrike east of Ramadi
• ISIS executes two people tried to escape from Hawija
• Arabs, Kurds retake northern Iraq village from Islamic State
• Italy intensifying fight against ISIS
• Top IS commanders 'taking refuge' in Libya

2 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-03-16): Security forces cut off ISIS supply routes between Fallujah and Khalediya Island
• Italy-US warn anti-jihadist coalition of growing ISIS threat
• Coalition faces growing IS threat in Libya and at home
• Pentagon Won't Say How Many Troops Are Fighting ISIS
• Shiite militia: 3 prominent ISIS leaders killed in attack on Allas oil field
• ISIS Mufti of Anbar killed in aerial bombardment in eastern Ramadi 

1 February 2016

• UPDATE (02-05-16): Prosecutors: Islamic State Inspired N. Carolina Man's Plan
• UPDATE (02-02-16): Egypt: Coptic teacher given three-year jail term for students' video mocking Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-02-16): ISIL recruiting migrant 'army of the poor' with $1,000 sign-up bonuses
• ISIS blows up ten Christian houses north of Mosul