Ongoing Islamic State Updates - August 2018

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30 August 2018

• UPDATE (09-02-18): Soldier planned to shoot up downtown, Waikiki for Islamic State

26 August 2018

• UPDATE (09-02-18): ISIS leader in Afghanistan is killed along with ten others in air raid in Nangarhar province

23 August 2018

• ISIS claims terror attack on French 'jihadi town': Knifeman shouting 'Allahu akbar' kills his mother and sister and wounds one person before being shot dead by police hours after call to arms from jihadi leader al-Baghdadi

22 August 2018

• UPDATE (08-23-18): Islamic State chief, in rare speech, urges followers to fight on
• UPDATE (08-23-18): ISIS Leader Baghdadi Resurfaces in Recording

14 August 2018

• UPDATE (08-23-18): IS Conflict: Up to 30,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq - UN
• UPDATE (08-23-18): Far From Dead: Tens of Thousands of IS Fighters Linger in Iraq, Syria

6 August 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): So-called 'IS Beatles' El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexandra Kotey dispute extradition
• UPDATE (08-11-18): California Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS