Islamic State Ongoing Updates - April 2019

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30 April 2019

• UPDATE (05-03-19): ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seen in new video for first time in five years
• UPDATE (05-03-19): Trump demands European countries take back astonishing total of 1,800 ISIS fighters captured in collapse of the caliphate

29 April 2019

• UPDATE (05-03-19): Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Alive. Now What?
• UPDATE (05-03-19): L.A. terror plot thwarted: Army vet planned 'mass casualties', FBI says 

27 April 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): What ISIS Did to My Village
• UPDATE (04-28-19): ISIS Relaunches as a Global Platform
•  At least 700 Muslim refugees flee their homes in Sri Lanka and go into hiding after Easter attacks

25 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lanka Attacks Signals ISIS' Widening Reach

23 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lanka bombings: ISIS claims responsibility for deadly church and hotel attacks on Easter Sunday
• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lanka minister: Easter bombings a response to NZ attacks
• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lankan bombers film themselves pledging allegiance to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi before carrying out terror attack
•  UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS suspect gave advance warning of Sri Lanka bombings, source says

22 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Gloating ISIS fanatics celebrate Sri Lanka attacks as revenge for New Zealand mosque massacre as they praise suicidal bombers in online propaganda

21 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): A month after IS 'caliphate' defeated, challenges aplenty

19 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS Resurgence Update - April 2019

17 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Two men training for terrorism arrested in Sicily

16 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): 'Have a nice day': ISIS fanatics revel in Notre Dame's destruction days before Easter as they describe the inferno as 'retribution and punishment'

15 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS claims to have killed 362 people in 92 attacks around the world in just three days in a 'revenge invasion' after the collapse of its 'calliphate'
• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS plans to copy Paris Bataclan massacre with a swathe of fresh attacks across Europe are revealed on a hard drive dropped by jihadis fighting in their final stronghold in Syria

9 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Seven people killed in North Sinai suicide boming

4 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Islamic State releases first combat video from Mali

3 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS Has Not Been Defeated. It's Alive and Well in Southern Syria.

2 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): IS children, the lost generation
• UPDATE (04-27-19): The Islamic State's refugees are facing a humanitarian calamity

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

California Governor vetoes bill extending statute of limitations against Church but not against public schools

A short time ago California legislators sent Senate Bill 131 to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown that would lift the statute of limitations in sexual abuse cases against children involving Catholic priests, but the same legislation would not the lift that statute in cases of sexual abuse against minors involving others:

The current bill from Sen. Jim Beall, D-San Jose, would have lifted the statute of limitations for a group of alleged victims who are 26 or older and missed the previous window [the statute of limitations had already been lifted in such cases in 2002] to file lawsuits because of time and age restrictions.

Catholic Church leaders, including the Diocese of Monterey, and representatives of other organizations in opposition, such as private schools and the State Alliance of YMCAs, said the proposal to allow claims is unfair because it does not allow accusers to sue public institutions [more].

Governor Brown courageously and rationally vetoed the legislation for the very reason the Church and other organizations opposed its passage.  In his veto statement he said:

This bill does not change a victim's ability to sue a perpetrator.  This bill also does not change the significant inequity that exists between private and public entities.  What this bill does do is go back to the only group, i.e. private institutions that have already been subjected to the unusual "one year revival period" and makes them, and them alone, subject to suit indefinitely.  This extraordinary extension of the statute of limitations, which legislators chose not to apply to public institutions, is simply too open-ended and unfair.

The discrimination between public and private institutions in California law has a long history and allows victims to sue the Catholic Church but not the public school system, a history which Governor Brown explores in his statement and calls "unreasonable, if not shocking."