Islamic State Ongoing Updates - August 2019

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30 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): Air Force Veteran Convicted for Trying to Join ISIS to be Resentenced
• UPDATE (08-31-19): Belgian ISIS butcher dubbed 'the executioner of Raqqa' who beheaded more than 100 people in terror stronghold while claiming benefits in Britain is captured in Syria

28 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): ISIS is still a global threat with a warchest of $300 million despite losing its territory in Iraq and Syria, UN counterterrorism official warns

27 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): Martyrdom causes of 5 Iraqis to be presented to Vatican in early September
• UPDATE (08-31-19): Mosul - from 15,000 Christians to 40

18 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): Islamic State claims bombing at Kabul wedding that killed 63

15 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): The Islamic State is building Caliphate 2.0 in a Sryian camp

8 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): Pentagon report blames Trump for the return of ISIS in Syria and Iraq

6 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): Iraqi Archbishop reflects on Christian community five years after ISIS takeover

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - September 2016

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30 September 2016

• UPDATE (10-06-16): How ISIS Endures By Innovating
• Iraq's beleaguered Christians face 'sneaky enemy in the ground' 

29 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-30-16): Images of Christian Refugees Suffering Hardship in Northern Iraq 

28 September 2016

• Iraqi forces liberate 2 areas in Heet Island, kill 33 ISIS members
• 16 ISIS terrorists killed due to explosive belt malfunction near Kirkuk 

27 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-27-16): ISIS using Google Maps to plot airport and plane terror attacks, report warns
  
• UPDATE (09-28-16): Anaheim man who tried to join ISIS gets thirty years in prison

26 September 2016

• Spain: Police arrest 2 Morrocans for alleged jihad support
• ISIS are plotting wave of car bomb attacks across Europe, intelligence chiefs fear, amid 'exodus' of its fighters in Syria and Iraq
• ISIS execute six of its fighters by crushing them with a bulldozer after they fled from fighting in Iraq

25 September 2016

• At least 7 killed in Daesh suicide attack in Baghdad

24 September 2016

• Death from the skies: RAF jets pound ISIS into submission as Defence Secretary says the extremists are 'on the cusp' of being driven out of Iraq

23 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-24-16): 2,000 teens radicalized by ISIS in France - report
• UPDATE (09-24-16): ISIS abducting children, selling them to Turkish traffickers who harvest their body parts, source says
• UPDATE (09-24-16): ISIS documents reveal jihadi wives receive suicide vests and machine guns as wedding gifts
• US confirms IS used chemical rocket attack on troops in Iraq
• Hacker who sent 'kill list' of U.S. military personnel to ISIS: 'I feel so bad'

22 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-24-16): 'Their generation will conquer Rome, Baghdad and Jerusalem': Chilling jihadi video shows how 'Cubs of the Caliphate' - children as young as five - are brainwashed into fighting for ISIS
• ISIS reportedly executes 6 boys with welding rod for playing soccer 

21 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-23-16): Islamic State and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps
• UPDATE (09-23-16): FBI probes Md. terror link in Detroit case
• UPDATE (09-22-16): Federal complaint against bombing suspect omits journal's ISIS references
• UPDATE (09-22-16): Obama Administration Considers Arming Syrian Kurds Against ISIS 

20 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-26-16): Ordinations suggest a tentative rebirth for Christianity in Iraq
• UPDATE (09-22-16): Iraqi Church eyes return to ancient homelands once ISIS is ousted from Mosul
• UPDATE (09-22-16): ISIS radio goes off the air amid heavy gunfire in Mosul
• UPDATE (09-22-16): ISIS 'caliph' Baghdadi spotted in Mosul
• UPDATE (09-22-16): ISIS land mine explosion kills 3 children in Manbig
• UPDATE (09-22-16): ISIS shoots and beheads spies with help of child
• UPDATE (09-22-16): Coalition airstrike kills senior ISIS leader near Mosul
• UPDATE (09-22-16): Illinois terror suspects sentenced to prison

19 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-22-16): WH Press Secretary on War on ISIS: 'This Is Actually Just a War of Narratives'
• UPDATE (09-22-16): Christian Homeland in Iraq: Nineveh Plain Province Is Solution 'Beyond Genocide'
• UPDATE (09-22-16): ISIS harvesting organs from its own dead and injured members after revenue from it oilfields dried up due to airstrikes

18 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-22-16): ISIS trades in human organs in Nineveh after losing funding sources
• Turkish police detain 40 over links with Islamic State
• Minnesota mall stabbing treated as potential terror attack

17 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-18-16): Caliphate in Peril, More ISIS Fighters May Take Mayhem to Europe
• Genocide of Christians By ISIS a Reality We Can't Ignore
• Turkey police detain IS suspects 'planning attacks'

16 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-22-16): Genocide of Christians by ISIS a reality we can't ignore
• ISIS-supporting Manchester United steward murdered Rochdale imam for practicing 'black magic'
• Fighting fire with fire 

15 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-16-16): Kenyan police find note suggesting Islamic State link to Mombassa attack 

14 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-16-16): U.S. Bombs Islamic State Chemical Weapons Plant in Iraq

13 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-18-16): ISIS Genocide Brings Fresh for Semi-Autonomous Haven for Christians in Iraq
• Germany arrests three Syrian men 'on ISIS mission'

12 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-13-16): ISIS drowns 8 civilians in a metal cage in central Mosul
• UPDATE (09-13-16): ISIS arrests 60 civilians in Mosul on first day of Eid al-Adha 

10 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-13-16): Islamic State claims twin blasts at Baghdad mall 

9 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-10-16): Father Jacques Mourad recounts Mass celebrated under ISIS rule
• UPDATE (09-10-16): Ahead of 9/11 Anniversary, FBI Arrests Kentucky Woman Allegedly Promoting ISIS-Inspired Attacks
• UPDATE (09-10-16): 30 to 40 ISIS suspects at large, European officials say

8 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-10-16): ISIS 'terror plot to attack UK' smashed by anti-terror police 

7 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-08-16): Saudi ambassador to Iraq expelled over 'assassination attempt' claims
• UPDATE (09-08-16): German Military, Police to Team Up Amid Fear of ISIS Attack
• UPDATE (09-08-16): Son of extremist imam arrested over ISIS terror plot to attack Christians in a shopping centre with chainsaw
• British Florist's Picture Used In Islamic State Propaganda Magazine
• US-trained sniper now 'minister of war' for ISIS
• Car packed with explosive gas cylinders and left near Paris' Notre Dame 'belonged to radicalized French woman who wanted to join ISIS' 

6 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-07-16): ISIS bombs headquarters of Anbar Border Guard Command, no causalities
• UPDATE (09-07-16): IS car bombing kills at least 12 civilian in Iraqi capital
• UPDATE (09-07-16): Radical preacher Anjem Choudary jailed for five years

5 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-07-16): Sources: ISIS planned for more operatives, targets during Paris attacks
• UPDATE (09-07-16): Christian militia claim victory over ISIS in Iraqi village
• UPDATE (09-07-16): ISIS Cut Teens In Half With Chainsaw: Corpses Litter Streets After Mass Execution
• UPDATE (09-07-16): War against ISIS: Security services bracing for possible return of thousands of jihadists as group loses territory
• UPDATE (09-07-16): Bye burka: ISIS bans burka in Iraqi city after killings by veiled women

4 September 2016

• Islamic State extremists attack Kaka'i religious minority in Iraq

2 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): France kicks out two ISIS fanatics after foiling 'large-scale' terror attack plot
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Pakistan admits for the first time that ISIS is active in the country after foiling planned attack on foreign embassies

1 September 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): Christiania shooter is ISIS 'sympathizer': police 

A news round up - 15 September 2014

• Great River Teens Encounter Christ is seeking to raise $35,000 through its third annual fundraising campaign to offset the costs of the retreat weekends and to keep fees low for participants and team alike. Please help if you can!

• In yet the latest attempt to force Christianity from the Public Square, Arizona State University has ordered the removal of small black crosses from back of football player's helmets. How long will it be before crosses are ordered removed from the steeples of our churches? 

• After studying daily weather observations made in 16th century Europe, researches have concluded that the autumn weather in Poland and Germany in the 1500s was "considerably colder" than it is today. For years I've been suggesting proponents of global warming study history to learn that the global climate is constantly changing. This new study is yet another piece of evidence to demonstrate this.

• In the days ahead of the planned Satanic Black Mass in Oklahoma City, we've been told by some that this is simply an expression of free speech and that the Satanists are merely exercising their religious liberty. I wonder if these same people would like to explain this a 5-year-old boy who had has his eyes gouged out with a spoon by his own mother during a Satanic ceremony?

• Muslims in Britain on calling on Prime Minister David Cameron that he should only refer to the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq as the "Un-Islamic State of Syria and Iraq." This is just silly. The government of China doesn't actually function as a republic, but no one is calling on any government leaders to refer to China as "the People's non-Republic of China."

• The Islamic State of Syria and Iraq has recently a detailed plan for growth over the next five years, including plans to spread from Spain to China. 

• U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has announced a national plan to "counter violent extremism," without specifying what sort of violent extremism will be countered. As a caution, it should be remembered that it was not all that long ago that Catholicism and Evangelical Christianity were listed in military training materials as forms of "religious extremism," alongside al-Qaeda, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the KKK.

Curious news

Interesting, and promising, news from the (London) Times:

Roman Catholicism is set to become the dominant religion in Britain for the first time since the Reformation because of massive migration from Catholic countries across the world.

Catholic parishes will swell by hundreds of thousands over the next few years after managing years of decline, according to a new report, as both legal and illegal migrants enter the country.

It says that the influx of migrants could be the Catholic community’s “greatest threat” or its “greatest opportunity”.

While in some places the Catholic Church has responded positively, in others it has been “overwhelmed” by the scale of the challenge. The growth of Catholicism in Britain comes as the established Church of England and the Anglican provinces in Scotland, Wales and Ireland face continuing, if slow, decline. [more]