Islamic State Ongoing Updates - April 2017

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30 April 2017

• UPDATE (05-02-17): US-led fight on ISIS have killed 352 civilians in Iraq and Syria: Pentagon

26 April 2017

• UPDATE (05-02-17): American 'convert' who lived in ISIS territory detained by Turkey

21 April 2017

• UPDATE (05-02-17): Revealed: ISIS terrorist who shot dead cop in Paris attack was arrested two months ago for threatening to kill police and served 15 years for trying to murder two officers

18 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-19-17): ISIS Gunmen Attack Historic St. Catherine Greek Orthodox Monastery in Egypt
• Why does Egypt's largest Muslim beacon, Al-Azhar, refuse to declare IS 'apostate'

17 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-18-17): Celebrating Easter in an Iraqi Town That Has Lost Its Christians
• UPDATE (04-18-17): In Afghanistan, Battle With ISIS Grinds On After 'Mother of All Bombs'

16 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-17-17): Iraq forces make Mosul gains, but anti-ISIS war far from over
• UPDATE (04-17-17): Islamic State holding more than 3400 Yazidis since 2014: Kurdish official
• UPDATE (04-17-17): Islamic State executes senior member, aides in Mosul over leaks
• UPDATE (04-17-17): Army: 2900 IS members killed in Mosul in 4 days

15 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-17-17): Berlin Christmas market attacker got order directly from ISIS: report
• UPDATE (04-17-17): Islamic State militant linked to Charlie Hebdo attack could still be alive: Iraq
• UPDATE (04-17-17): Islamic State launches toxic gasses attack on west of Mosul
• UPDATE (04-17-17): Devastating aftermath of the 'Mother of ll Bombs': Children play among the rubble in Afghan town where largest non-nuclear weapon ever used by US military killed 94 militants including four ISIS leaders

14 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-17-17): Defeat by Annihilation: Mobility and Attrition the Islamic State Defense of Mosul
• Government: 36 Islamic State fighters killed by 'Mother of All Bombs' 

13 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-014-17): The Cross ISIS couldn't destroy
• Cause of Fr Jacques Hamel is officially opened
• U.S. Bombs, Destroys Khorasan Group Stronghold in Afghanistan
• ISIS deploy's 1,000 troops to claim 'new terror capital' in shock offensive 
• US drops 'mother of all bombs' on ISIS forces in Afghanistan
• 2 Franciscan friars minister in area under ISIS control
• Islamic State arrests workers at western Mosul blood bank
• Islamist arrested over soccer bus attack was IS member in Iraq

12 April 2017

• 2 suburban Chicago men face terror charges
• Anbar towners kill 3 IS members in a purported revolt 
• ISIS forces 33 of its fighters to have an EAR cut off after they refused to fight Iraqi troops

11 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-12-17): Alexandria Church Bomber Previously Arrested for ISIS Ties: Report

10 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-11-17): Despite deadly attacks, Pope Francis will still go to Egypt
• Italy expels ISIS sympathizer

9 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-10-17): Why ISIS Declared War on Egypt's Christians
• UPDATE (04-10-17): Suicide bombers kill 44 at Palm Sunday services in Egypt
• UPDATE (04-10-17): Terrifying moment one of two ISIS suicide bombers detonates outside Egyptian church after being turned away by three hero policemen in Palm Sunday massacre that killed nearly 50 Christians
• ISIS Claims 2 Deadly Explosions at Egyptian Coptic Churches on Palm Sunday
• Egypt's Coptic churches hit by deadly blasts on Palm Sunday

7 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-10-17): ISIS lifts veil on American at heart of its propaganda machine

6 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-10-17): ISIS slaughters 33 people by slitting their throats and then dumps their bodies in a mass grave in largest execution operation of the year

5 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-12-17): Pro-ISIS hackers release 'kill list' with 8,786 targets in US, UK
• UPDATE (04-10-17): Russia arrests six 'IS recruiters' in St. Petersburg
• UPDATE (04-10-17): IS executes three prominent leaders of west Mosul

4 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-10-17): US teen pleads guilty to IS-inspired plot to kill Pope

3 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-10-17): Catholic priest tops list of CNN heroes for sheltering persecuted Christians
• UPDATE (04-10-17): ISIS captive among new refugees welcomed by Pope Francis

2 April 2017

• UPDATE (04-03-17): World's most wanted terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi escaped capture by Iraqi special forces 'by minutes after escaping through a trapdoor'

1 April 2017 

• ISIS's second-in-command is killed in an air strike in Iraq

• ISIS car bomb factory discovered in Mosul where 'jihadis pack vehicles with deadly chlorine and paint trucks bright colours to fool US spy drones 

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31 December 2016

• UPDATE (01-01-17): IS claims Baghdad blasts that killed at least 28
• UPDATE (01-01-17): Inside the economic war against the Islamic State

30 December 2016

• UPDATE (01-01-17): I'm being forgotten because I'm not European, says Indian priest kidnapped by ISIS
• UPDATE (01-01-17): 2017 Warning: ISIS call on 'Western sons' to launch brutal attacks on New Year's revellers
• UPDATE (01-01-17): Spanish ISIS Widows Arrested While Trying to Return to Europe
• The tragedy of the sex slaves of the Islamic State
• Iraqi forces face Islamic State car bombs, fierce resistance in south Mosul

29 December 2016

• UPDATE (01-01-17): Disguised as refugees and able to cross borders without being identified: ISIS general who blew up a hostage with a rocket and decapitated another prisoner is 'back in Europe with 400 soldiers' after fleeing Syria

27 December 2016

• The American Leader in the Islamic State

26 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Islamic State arrests reveal jihadi threat threat near seat of U.S. government

25 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Police uncover ISIS plot to set off phone bomb on UK streets in the run up to Christmas after two people appear in court charged with terror offense 

24 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Christmas reborn in Iraqi town freed from ISIS
• Christmas Terror: Vatican braces for growing ISIS threat in Midnight Mass warning

23 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Feds warn of ISIS threats to churches, holiday events
• For Liberated Iraqi Christians, Still a Bleak Christmas
• Anis Amri, Suspect in Berlin Truck Attack, Is Shot Dead Near Milan

22 December 2016

• Australian police say they thwarted planned Christmas bombings
• Turkey bans Twitter, Facebook and YouTube after ISIS savages upload a video of themselves burning two soldiers alive in a sick execution
• Berlin massacre suspect offered himself as a suicide bomber in months before Christmas market attack as chilling footage emerges of him patrolling the city

21 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-22-16): IS 'indiscriminately' attacking civilians in Mosul: HRW
• UPDATE (12-22-16): Berlin Truck Attacker Was No Lone Wolf, German Authorities Say

20 December 2016

• ISIS: We Did Berlin Truck Attack

19 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-21-16): Italian Muslim convert found guilty of helping Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-20-16): Syrian army vehicles seized by Islamic State seen in Anbar

17 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): U.S. offers $25 million reward for information on Islamic State leader

16 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): ISIS shows no sign of weakening as Mosul battle enters third month
• UPDATE (12-20-16): 'Have mercy on ISIS': The shocking prayer of a young Iraqi

15 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-16-16): Terror-stricken France deploys thousands more troops to streets amid Christmas threat

13 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): ISIS claims responsibility for Egypt church bombing that killed 25

10 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Iraq sends reinforcements to eastern Mosul after ISIS attack
• UPDATE (12-11-16): House to House: The painstaking process of sweeping ISIS from Mosul
• UPDATE (12-11-16): US to send troops to help seize Raqqa from IS
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Spotlight turns to US forces' role as IS fight continues
• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS Retakes UNESCO Heritage Palmyra - So Where Is Putin's Army Now?

9 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Islamic State treatens Egypt Sufis after claiming cleric murdershttp://zeenews.india.com/news/world/islamic-state-threatens-egypt-sufis-after-claiming-cleric-murders_1957103.html
• UPDATE (12-11-16): No home for the holidays: Assyrian Christians unable to return to villages destroyed by ISIS
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Rotterdam terrorist arrested with loaded AK-47 and Islamic State flag
• U.S.-led warplanes destroy fleet of Islamic State oil tankers in Syria

8 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): ISIS in the Caribbean: Trinidad has the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. How did this happen?
• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS may be on the run, but Iraqi Christians 'are still afraid'
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Islamic State Mag Praises Ohio State Jihadi, Doubles Down on Knife Attacks
• UPDATE (12-09-16): ISIS Remains Threat in Libya Despite Defeat in Surt, U.S. Officials Say

7 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Bishop helped broker ransom of 226 hostages from ISIS
• UPDATE (12-11-16): 'Thousands of pounds in British benefits used to fund ISIS terror cells' expert claims
• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS rise surprised Obama, US intelligence
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Italy Departs Moroccan Jihadist Planning Bomb Attack in Vatican
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Up to 1,750 ISIS jihadists have returned to Europe with orders to carry out attacks, EU report warns

6 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Syrian migrant, 16 who had links to ISIS charged with plotting bomb attack in Cologne

5 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS declares Trump inauguration day 'Bloody Friday'
  
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Creve Coeur worker told coworkers he was in ISIS, could blow them with one call, authorities say
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Civilians fleeing rebel-held east Aleppo 'detained and conscripted' by Syrian forces
• ISIS thugs hurl prisoner off roof before a baying mob of fanatics pet his corpse with rocks for the 'crime' of being gay

4 December 2016

• Islamic State strikes back to slow Iraqi forces in Mosul

3 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-04-16): IS jihadist linked to French plot arrested in Morocco
• UPDATE (12-04-16): ISIS pounds Iraqi fighters near Mosul

2 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Holiday Warning: Hundreds of jihadi cells found in tourist hotspot after ISIS massacre

1 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Iraqi military using militia groups to secure territory recaptured from Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Terrorist threats may suspend Masses in Philippines capital