Islamic State Ongoing Updates - September 2019

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30 September 2019

• UPDATE (10-01-19): Islamic State violence against Christians in Iraq, Syria, focus of hearing

26 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-27-19): Despite $380M in US aid for religious minorities persecuted by ISIS, 1 million from Nineveh Plains remain displaced

25 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-27-19): ISIS is 'preparing to free its loyal fighters' from huge prison camps in Syria and Iraq, report warns after Trump threatened to release fanatics on Europe's borders

21 September 2019

• UPDATE (10-16-19): Why isn't the media covering Turkish President Erdogan's ties to ISIS?

19 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-27-19): A US drone strike meant for ISIS killed 30 pine nut harvesters in Afghanistan
• American Airlines sabotage mechanic 'has possible IS links'

16 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-18-19): ISIS' on-the-run leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with £19m price on his dead will be caught says senior British army officer

• UPDATE (09-18-19): Islamic State Releases Purported Audio Message From Leader Baghdadi

4 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-09-19): ISIS, Weakened, Finds New Bombers: Cows Wearing Explosive Vests

2 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-09-19): 19-year-old arrested in connection with possible ISIS-inspired attack in Queens

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - May 2019

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31 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): ISIS wife and alleged Kayla Mueller jailor: "Our husbands became like wild animals"
• UPDATE (06-20-19): Islamic State group: Spain arrests man 'financing return of fighters'

30 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): Analysis: Islamic State claims in the DRC
• Lyon Bomb Suspect Told Police He Pledged Allegiance to ISIS

29 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): Islamic State suspects sent by U.S. from Syria to Iraq

28 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): ISIS 'is using wildfire as terror weapons against its enemies' - with the group claiming responsibility for arson attacks that scorched land in Iraq and Syria and warning that 'this is just the beginning'

12 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): On-the-run ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is hiding out in eastern Afghanistan, claims security expert

3 May 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): 
• UPDATE (05-06-19): Welcome to the Post-Middle East ISIS

2 May 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): Life under ISIS: Raqqa's Christians tell their story

1 May 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): Islamic State sowing terror worldwide, warns Iraqi prelate

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - October 2018

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31 October 2018

• UPDATE (11-22-18): The Trump White House Says ISIS Has Been Defeated in Iraq. The Data Says Otherwise

30 October 2018

• UPDATE (11-16-18): Wisconsin Man Convicted of Conspiring to Provide Support to ISIS

29 October 2018

• UPDATE (11-16-18): American ISIS Suspect Is Freed After Being Held More Than A Year

25 October 2018

• UPDATE (10-26-18): The Caliph's Role in the (un)Surprising Resilience of the Islamic State

23 October 2018

• UPDATE (10-25-18): Deputy chief of IS-linked group in Somalia killed: Officials

18 October 2018

• UPDATE (10-21-18): 100 ISIS Terrorists Caught in Guatemala as Central American Caravan Heads to U.S.
• UPDATE (10-19-18): ISIS have taken 700 hostages - including US and European citizens - after raiding Syrian refugee camp and have begun executing 'ten prisoners a day', says Putin

17 October 2018

• UPDATE (10-19-18): Analysis: Mapping the rise and stall of Islamic State in Afghanistan

11 October 2018

• UPDATE (10-19-18): ISIS leader al-Baghdadi 'orders 320 of his followers to be to be killed for disloyalty'

9 October 2018

• UPDATE (10-21-18): Iraqi archbishop fears more persecution, says IS went underground

3 October 2018

• UPDATE (10-19-18): Youngest son of ISIS mastermind Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'is killed in Russian airstrike' months after another of his sons died fighting for jihadists in Syria

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

Ongoing Islamic State Updates - July 2018

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31 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): IS video shows 'Tajikistan foreign cyclist killers' pledging allegiance

30 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): ISIS are holding more than 30 women and children hostage after seizing them during deadly attack on Druze ethnic minority in Syria

25 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): 'ISIS' suicide bomber kills at least 30, including children, at a polling station in Pakistan - as Imran Khan vies for power in country's 'dirtiest election'

23 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): From Daesh to 'Diaspora': Tracing the Women and Minors of the Islamic State

20 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-21-18): ISIS supporter pleads guilty in plot to kill 10,000 in [San Francisco] Bay area (Report)

19 July

• UPDATE (08-11-18): Islamic State. Diminished, but still dangerous
• UPDATE (08-11-18): Suspected ISIS fighter from Dearborn captured on Syrian battlefield
• UPDATE (07-21-18): American Accused of Being ISIS Fighter in Syria Faces Prosecution in U.S.

18 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-19-19): What did documents, records left behind by ISIS in Raqqa reveal?
• UPDATE (07-19-18): As ISIS Fighters Fill Prisons in Syria, Their Home Nations Look Away
• UPDATE (07-19-18): U.S. Weighs Destinations for Islamic State Detainees in Syria: Some fighters have been returned to countries of origin, others could wind up at Guantanamo Bay

17 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-18-18): The Islamic State is making a comback in Iraq just months after Baghdad declared victory

16 July 2018

• Investigation reveals elaborate technology terror web

13 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-16-18): Man who urged Prince George attack given life sentence

11 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-12-18): Raqqa Was the Capital of ISIS. Can It Ever Be Home Again?

9 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-11-18): ISIS Remnants Fight On, Despite U.S. Campaign
• UPDATE (07-09-18): ISIS 'capital' captured in Afghanistan, over 160 fighters killed by US, Afghan troops

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - July 2017

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30 July 2017

• UPDATE (08-10-17): ISIS, squeezed out of Iraq and Syria, now 'regrouping' in Libya, analysts say

28 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-29-17): Officials say 7,000 Islamic State affiliates remain in Iraq

24 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-29-17): Official: IS holds 25,000 civilians in western Anbar enclaves
• UPDATE (07-29-17): Hawaii soldier pleads not guilty to support for Islamic State

21 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-23-17): Federal grand jury indicts Hawaii soldier with providing support to ISIS
• UPDATE (07-23-17): Catholic group sends 15 Virgin Mary statues to Iraq to replace ones destroyed by ISIS
• UPDATE (07-23-17): Interpol circulates list of 173 suspected members of ISIS suicide brigade
• UPDATE (07-23-17): Suburban mom claims 'combat immunity' in terror case
• UPDATE (07-23-17): Oakland Man Indicted for Allegedly Aiding ISIS

20 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-21-17): Prelate reclaims his Archdiocese of Mosul

18 July 2017

• UPDATE (97-20-17): ISIS flog teenagers for playing football as desperate jihadis continue reign of terror
• UPDATE (07-20-17): Three businesses in Glasgow's southside named as 'targets' in ISIS-affiliated hit list

17 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-19-17): 'I am not a bad person,' ISIS conspirator says in admitting he murdered elderly neighbor
• US to create independent military command

15 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-17-17): ISIS may be on its knees but it will rise again if we don't break the cycle

14 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-17-17): Patriarch to displaced Iraqi Christians: return home before others take your land
• UPDATE (07-15-17): ISIS supporters urge lone wolves to derail trains, blow up oil pipelines and attack the Women's Euro's football championship as their caliphate crumbles
• UPDATE (07-15-17): US kills leader of ISIS in Afghanistan

13 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-17-17): Yemeni official confirms: kidnapped priest is still alive
• UPDATE (07-17-17): Conflict with ISIS ally is not a religious conflict, Philippine bishops insist

12 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-17-17): First Singaporean woman suspected of Islamist radicalism detained
• UPDATE (07-17-17): Solider arrested for ties to ISIS declared sympathy for the extremist six years ago but was allowed to continue to serve
• Iraq strikes Islamic State in Mosul day after declaring victory
• 17 IS militants killed as Iraqi joint force foils 4th attack near Mosul

10 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-11-17): Man who threatened to 'carry out massacres deported from Italy
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Iran congratulates Iraq on victory, as Iraqi troops push to clear last Mosul ground of Daesh militants
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Iraqi prime minister declares 'total victory' in Mosul
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Islamic State built staying power with global jihadists
• UPDATE (07-11-17): FBI: Hawaii soldier attempted to give Islamic State drone, classified documents
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Arrested Hawaii soldier studied Islam during deployment, father says
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Hawaii-stationed soldier arrested for alleged ties to terror

9 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-11-17): ISIS goes up in smoke: US airstrike pounds small remaining area of Mosul held by the terror group as Iraq declares victory in the city after a bloody eight-month battle
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Iraqi Prime Minister arrives in Mosul to Declare Victory over ISIS
• UPDATE (07-11-17): IS still holds 60% of Imam Gharbi region in southern Mosul

8 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-17-17): Dominican friar saved 800 manuscripts from ISIS
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Iraq announces 'victory' over Islamic State in Mosul

7 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-17-17): Notre Dame attacker claimed allegiance to Islamic State: report
• UPDATE (07-11-17): Facing defeat in Mosul, Islamic State mounts diversionary attack to the south

6 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-11-17): The watchers: Airmen who surveil the Islamic State never get to look away

5 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-06-17): What ISIL really thinks about the future

4 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-06-17): Where is 'Islamic State' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?

3 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-11-17): How ISIS Will Go On Without Mosul
• UPDATE (06-07-17): ISIS preacher 'is burned alive as punishment for accidentally suggesting the group's leader has died during emotional sermon'
• UPDATE (06-07-17): Islamic State currency designer killed in anonymous attack west of Mosul
• UPDATE (07-06-17): ISIS burn 12 people alive including a family of four after forcing them into metal cages and dousing them with oil when they tried to flee

2 July 2017

• UPDATE (07-06-17): With ISIS on the Run, an Unexpected Leader Emerges in Iraq