Islamic State Ongoing Updates - August 2016

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31 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): ISIS names Pope 'enemy number one' for being a non-believer
• UPDATE (09-04-16): Vicars told 'don't wear dog collars in public' over fears jihadists are planning attacks
• UPDATE (09-04-16): ISIS bans football referees in Syria because they enforce 'laws of FIFA not of Sharia

30 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): 2 Bangladeshi men jailed for financing terrorism
• UPDATE (09-03-16): The ISIS Attack Dog Reported Dead
• UPDATE (09-03-16): AP shows that ISIS recruits know little about Islam; but what about top ISIS leaders?
• UPDATE (09-03-16): ISIS abducts 40 civilians from Hawija
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Leaked ISIS Documents Show Internal Chaos

29 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): 
• UPDATE (09-04-16): Inside the Head of an ISIS True Believer
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Yemen suicide attack claims by IS 'kills dozens' in Aden 

28 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): German army wants security checks for recruits after admitting more than 60 ISIL suspects in its ranks
• UPDATE (09-03-16): ISIS bomber attacks Catholic priest with ax during Sunday Mass
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Philippines IS-linked Maute group inmates freed in 'raid'
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Life on the frontline fighting Islamic State 

27 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-03-16): ISIS video shows boys executing prisoners

25 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): Trial set for suspected Pensacola ISIL supporter

24 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-25-16): Mississippi man who tried to join ISIS with fiancee gets 8 years in prison
• UPDATE (08-25-16): Kansas man faces sentencing for role in foiled bomb plot
• Qayyarah fully liberated from ISIS control
• Raped and tortured by IS, Yazidi women recover in Germany 

21 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-22-16): 2 Singaporeans planning to join Islamic State given detention orders
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Erdogan: Suicide Bomber in Turkish Wedding Attack Was 12-14 Years Old
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Fake passports for ISIL terrorists 'found in Greek refugee camps'
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Feds in terror case want max term for ex-Illinois guardsman
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Iraq hangs 36 for Camp Speicher massacre

19 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-22-16): Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Russian traffic police

16 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-24-16): Alqosh, despite the Islamic State, the Church celebrates the first communion of one hundred children
• UPDATE (08-17-16): Documents: Freeport man died fighting for Islamic State in Lebanon
• Radical Islamist Preacher Anjem Choudary Found Guilty of Supporting ISIS 

14 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-15-16): Saudis Say Suspect in Police Killing Linked to Islamic State
• UPDATE (08-15-16): Italy on High Alert for Suspected ISIS Cell in Milan 

13 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-15-16): Victories against IS leave Iraq's Sunni heartland shattered
• UPDATE (08-15-16): Revealed: Gory pictures of blisters suffered by Kurdish fighters are the first evidence that ISIS jihadis are now deploying mustard gas in Iraq
• UPDATE (08-15-16): ISIS Orders Its Franchises to Kill Christians 

11 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-16-15): Mississippi ex-cheerleader sentenced to 12 years for plot to join Islamic State
• UPDATE (08-15-16): Kurds say Islamic State oil overseer killed in joint ops with U.S.
• UPDATE (08-12-16): ISIS release sick video of 'gay man' being thrown off building for 'corrupting people's minds'
• UPDATE (08-12-16): House probe: Central Command skewed intel on ISIS fight

10 August 2016

• Christians say defeating ISIS won't make Iraq safe for them
• US: 45,000 Islamic State fighters taken off battlefields
• Libyans 'oust' so-called IS from Sirte headquarters
• Islamic State found a wealth of ancient artifcts in Tal Ajaja. They destroyed them

9 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): 'Explosive belt for Miss Universe': ISIS affiliate calls for attack beauty pageant in Philippines

8 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-09-16): ISIS claim responsibility for Pakistan suicide bomb killing at least 70 people - mainly solicitors - as footage emerges of the moment it detonated 

7 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Militants linked to ISIS claim they confiscated US weapons in Afghanistan
• UPDATE (08-10-16): Muslim woman devotes her life to helping Christians displaced by ISIS
• UPDATE (08-08-16): Taliban, Islamic State Forge Alliance of Convenience in Eastern Afghanistan 

6 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): 'ISIS' Promises Attack on Rio Olympic Games 2016 
• UPDATE (08-09-16): Catholic nuns under siege in Syria issue plea for help 

5 August 2016

• UN cites reports of up to 3,000 Iraqis captured by IS

3 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Terrorism 'heat map' shows ISIS network spreading across the world
• UPDATE (08-10-16): White House Map Shows Islamic State Still Expanding, Despite Public Claims

2 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Trini ISIS sniper: All Christians must die  

1 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Ohio Man, ISIS Sympathizer Pleads Guilty to Charges He Planned U.S. Capitol Attack
• UPDATE (08-10-16): 9 Trinidadians nabbed on their way to Syria