Islamic State Ongoing Updates - July 2016

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30 July 2016

• UPDATE (08-02-16): Plea change likely for Cincinnati man in terror plot

29 July 2016

• UPDATE (08-01-16): Civilian death toll on the rise from American-led airstrikes against ISIS

28 July 2016

• UPDATE (08-01-16): ISIS terrorist bragged about plans before Normandy attack, report says

27 July 2016

• Islamic State claims attack that killed 44 in northern Syria
• Two Moroccans nabbed and Imam expelled in terror probe

26 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-27-16): 'You Christians, you kill us': Nun reveals words of ISIS knifeman who forced elderly priest, 84, to kneel at altar as they slit his throat on camera after invading Mass - before police shot them
• UPDATE (07-27-16): France Church Attack Hollande ISIS

22 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-27-16): Rio 2016: ISIS release 17 point step-by-step guide on how 'lone wolf' jihadis can attack

19 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-21-16): 'Deradicalized' Islamic State Fighters Producing Terror Propaganda Videos in Germany
• Brazil extremists declare loyalty to Islamic State in first public declaration South America, weeks ahead of Olympics

17 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-19-16): Kerry insists Islamic State is 'on the run' despite wave of terror, points finger at Congress

16 July 2016

• ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack on Nice, 5 Detained by French Officials
• Libyan forces battling Islamic State in Sirte suffer losses in push to advance

14 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-19-16): Convicted murderer and former farm hand who was converted to radical Islam in an Australian maximum security prison 'has fled to Syria to join ISIS'
• UPDATE (07-16-16): Senior ISIS militant 'Omar the Chechen' killed in Iraq, months after the US reported him dead in Syria

13 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-20-16): Syrian Christians fear persecution by ISIS in Lebanon as well
• UPDATE (07-16-16): Breaking prisoner's ribs on a 'flying carpet', taunting them with severed heads and locking women in cages filled with skulls: Activists reveal horrific torture methods used by ISIS 

12 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-27-16): Suicide Bomb Kills 11 in Baghdad Shiite District

11 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-20-16): Twins arrested in 'terror plot' on SA police radar since 2015

10 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-27-16): Muslim Man Hugs ISIS Militant Armed Wearing Suicide Vest Before Explosion, Saves Hundreds of Lives

8 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-20-16): The ISIS factor: Former Bangladeshi reality TV singer boasts about jihad in latest sick terror video
• UPDATE (07-20-16): ISIS extremists behead four footballers after declaring the sport anti-Islamic
• UPDATE (07-12-16): Virginia Man Charged With Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL

6 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-27-16): ISIS tightens grip on Yazidi captives held as sex slaves

5 July 2016

• UPDATE (08-01-16): ISIS child slave forced to fight for 'Caliphate Cubs' blown up after playing with grenade
• UPDATE (07-21-16): State Dept.: 'Indiscriminate' attacks a measure of success in fight against ISIS
• UPDATE (07-21-16): ISIS abandons a town, destruction remains
• UPDATE (07-21-16): Former National Guardsman accused of plotting attack to support ISIS
• UPDATE (07-06-16): Seven ISIS fighters who fled the battlefield are boiled alive as punishment in Iraq

4 July 2016

• Fury over insecurity as Iraqis mourn 200[+] dead in Baghdad blast
• ISIS Bombing in Baghdad Casts Doubt on Iraqi Leader's Ability to Unite
• Iraq pushes IS back, but struggles to secure Baghdad
• Malaysian police confirm nightclub blast first successful attack by ISIL on Malaysian soil
• ISIL blamed for Malaysian bar attack 
• The worst ISIS attack in days is the one the world probably cares least about
• Islamic State Baghdad bombings: Death toll rises to 165, more than 200 injured
• Russia to send its largest warship to Syria as Putin prepares final push to destroy ISIS 

3 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-21-16): Islamic State Beheads Men Accused of Mocking Islam, 'Serving Infidels'
• UPDATE (07-04-16): ISIS Repels American-Backed Forces Advancing on Syria Bastion
• UPDATE (07-04-16): A new church is dedicated for Iraqi Christians displaced by ISIS
• UPDATE (07-04-16): ISIS Uses Ramadan as Calling for New Terrorist Attacks
• ISIL-claimed suicide attack kills dozens in busy Baghdad shopping street
• Iraqi officials: 91 people killed in 2 bombings in Baghdad
• US airstrike kills 2 senior Islamic State military leaders in Iraq, Pentagon says

2 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-03-16): Islamic State militants kill Coptic Orthodox priest in Egypt's North Sinai
• UPDATE (07-03-16): 91 killed as 2 blasts rip through Ramadan crowds at Baghdad shopping areas
• UPDATE (07-03-16): Amnesty: Islamic State is making Christian sex slaves in Libya
• UPDATE (07-03-16): Chilling pictures show smiling ISIS terrorists who hacked 20 people to death in Bangladesh cafe
• UPDATE (07-03-16): Victims 'hacked to death' in Bangladeshi siege that saw at least 20 killed after police storm building
• UPDATE (07-03-16): ISIS child soldiers seen 'executing Afghan National Army members' in sickening new footage from terror group
• UPDATE (07-03-16): Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim Countries
• UPDATE (07-03-16): Burned out human cages, schools packed with explosives and hate propaganda for children: What ISIS left behind when Iraqi forces drove them from Fallujah
• UPDATE (07-03-16): As ISIS strikes, al-Qaeda plays the long game in Islamist supremacy struggle

1 July 2016

• UPDATE (07-27-16): ISIS terrorists shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as they hacked to death 20 foreign tourists in restaurant in Bangladesh - but spared those who could recite the Koran - before amoured troops moved in
• UPDATE (07-03-16): Pro-ISIS twitter account threatens attacks at London Heathrow, Los Angeles and New York's JFK airports on July 4 weekend
• UPDATE (07-03-16): Bangladesh terror attack: 'ISIS' Gunmen 'Shouting "Allahu Akbar" storm restaurant just streets from British High Commission
  
• UPDATE (07-02-16): NYPD: Ready for War with ISIS Terrorists

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - June 2016

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30 June 2016

• UPDATE (07-21-16): Adams [Massachusetts] man indicted on terrorism charges
• UPDATE (07-02-16): Coptic priest gunned down by ISIS in Egypt's Sinai Penninsula
• UPDATE (07-02-16): 'Vicar of Baghdad' Andrew White Suspended from Charity Over Buying Back Sex Slaves from ISIS

29 June 2016

• UPDATE (07-02-16): ISIS suicide bombers hit Christian village in Lebanon
• Islamic State forces Syria rebels to retreat from border area

26 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-27-16): IS claims suicide attack against Jordanian troops
• Iraq takes 'last IS bastion in Fallujah'
• Iraqi forces retake Islamic State holdout in Fallujah, declare battle over 

25 June 2016

• Islamic State officially creates province in the Philippines
• Unidentified gunmen kill senior ISIS leader in central Mosul

24 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-25-16): Source: ISIS executes 5 civilians on charges of cooperating with government in Kirkuk
• Inside an Assyrian Village on the Frontlines with ISIS

23 June 2016 

• U.S.-backe forces enter Islamic State bastion in Syria amid clashes
• Federal Police discovers ISIS communication center south of Fallujah
• ISIS' first line of defense destroyed at north of Baiji
• Offensives against Islamic State could displace 2.3 million Iraqis: U.N.
• US-backed Syrian forces clash with Islamic State on outskirts of Manbij
• Islamic State militants push back in Syria, Iraq and Libya

22 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-24-16): Orange County Men Convicted of Attempting to Aid ISIS
• UPDATE (06-24-16): 'Orlando Will Be Repeated,' and 'No Place Is Safe,' Former ISIS Captive Warn Congress
• UPDATE (06-23-16): A Tour of Falluja Reveals Grim Remnants of Life Under ISIS
• UPDATE (06-23-16): They've Got U.S. Guns. Can They Stop ISIS?
• UPDATE (06-23-16): ISIS Claims Deaths of 3 Russian Soldiers in Blast on Road to Raqqa 

20 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-23-16): Kabul Attack Prompts ISIS, Taliban to Launch Competing Claims of Responsibility
• UPDATE (06-23-16): Fight to drive 'IS' from Iraq far from over
• UPDATE (06-23-16): ISIS expands beyond Iraq-Syria base with six armies on three world regions
• UPDATE (06-23-16): ISIS Crucifying Ramadan Violators 'Every Day' in Syria
• Iraq declares victory over Islamic State in Falluja
• Security forces free 360 people from ISIS prison in central Fallujah 

19 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-20-16): Why ISIS's Message Resonates: Leveraging Islam, Sociopolitical Catalysts, and Adaptive Messaging
• UPDATE (06-20-16): Washington won't map areas of Syria controlled by US-backed opposition - Russian MoD

18 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-23-16): What the Islamic State Has Won and Lost 

17 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-18-16): ISIL propagandist with Canadian-sounding accent resurfaces to glorify Orlando nightclub shootings

16 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-24-16): Christian militias fighting ISIS in Iraq hope for U.S. support
• UPDATE (06-17-16): IS has 'global reach,' CIA chief Brennan warns
• UPDATE (06-17-16): CIA Chief to Deliver Alarming Islamic State Warning to Congress
• UPDATE (06-17-16): Federal Police announces killing 232 militants, liberating 25% of Fallujah
• UPDATE (06-17-16): CIA director: More Islamic State fighters worldwide than al Qaeda at its height
• UPDATE (06-17-16): ISIS crucifies three people 'for breaking Ramadan fast'
• IS still 'committing genocide against Yazidis': UN probe
• Father of Paris Attack Victim Sues Twitter, Facebook and Google for Providing 'Material Support' to Islamic State

15 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-16-16): Iraq says senior military commander killed while fighting ISIS
• UPDATE (06-16-16): In Iraq, Apache Gunships Deploy to Mosul, But Not Fallujah: Pentagon

14 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-24-16): Syriac patriachs: Two years on from ISIS' capture of Mosul, Iraq is 'still bleeding'
• UPDATE (06-17-16): The Islamic State's views on homosexuality
• UPDATE (06-16-16): Second Canadian in Philippines executed by Abu Sayyaf militants
• UPDATE (06-16-16): ISIS Praises Mateen as 'Lion of Caliphate,' Urges Attacks at Theaters, Hospitals, Amusement Parks
  
• UPDATE (06-16-16): French jihadist police killer 'obeyed Islamic State call'
• UPDATE (06-16-16): ISIS Terror Killing in Paris Streamed on Facebook Live
• UPDATE (06-16-16): US Apache helicopters strike Islamic State jihadists for first time in Iraq
• UPDATE (06-16-16): Patriarchs want lands where Christians lived liberated from ISIS 

13 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-16-16): Over 5,000 People Arrested in Bangladesh to Protect Christians
• UPDATE (06-16-16): A personal quest to document IS massacre of Iraqi Yazidis

12 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-16-16): Islamic state claims responsibility for Orlando shooting
• UPDATE (06-16-16): ISIS executes 19 of its elements for desertion in battlefield
• UPDATE (06-16-16): Terrorists involved in Lockerbie bombing are now fighting with ISIS
• ISIS suicide bombers in Sirte hit pro-govt Libyan forces 

11 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-12-16): Fears that hundreds of ISIS terrorists could have snuck into Germany
• Libyan forces claim port in Islamic State stronghold of Sirte
• ISIS claims blast near Shiite shrine in Damascus
• World's largest cemetery receives '100 bodies a day' from fighting in Iraq
• Thousands trapped in besieged IS bastion in north Syria

10 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-11-16): After more than $1.6 billion in U.S. aid, Iraq's army still struggles
• UPDATE (06-11-16): ISIS leader al-Baghdadi 'is wounded in air strike on command center in Iraq'
• Islamic State Blows Up Ancient Assyrian Temple in Northern Iraq
• Growing desertions as Islamic State loses ground: experts

9 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-16-16): ISIS 'kill list' targets Palm Beach, Treasure Coast residents: Ex-FBI agent
• UPDATE (06-11-16): Top Dem Recognizes Christian ISIS Genocide, Won't Take Christian Refugees
• UPDATE (06-10-16): American ISIS fighter who 'found it hard' returns to face criminal charges
• UPDATE (06-10-16): About 100,000 Muslim clerics sign fatwa against Daesh in Bangladesh
• UPDATE (06-10-16): Desperate ISIS stealing drugs, laying traps as liberating forces move on Fallujah

7 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-10-16): ISIS claims responsibility for brutal murder of Catholic in Bangladesh
• UPDATE (06-10-16): FBI Director: Number of IS cases in US has not dropped off
• UPDATE (06-10-16): ISIS slams rivals as "Jews of Jihad'
• UPDATE (06-10-16): ISIS Blows Up Ancient Temple, Vows to Destroy Egypt's Pyramids  

6 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-10-16): 19 Yazidi girls burned alive for refusing to have sex with their ISIS captors
• UPDATE (06-07-16): 'Child slaves' making uniforms for ISIS: Inside the Turkish sweatshop where children as young as nine work 12 hours a day stitching combat gear used in battle by Islamic State
• Islamic State shoots civilians fleeing across Euphrates as Iraq forces take south Fallujah, find mass grave 

5 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-06-16): U.S. Govt. Warns of Potential Islamic State Attacks as Ramadan Begins
• UPDATE (06-06-16): Iraqi Forces Secure Southern Edge of Islamic State-Held Fallujah
• UPDATE (06-06-16): Islamic State kills dozens of its own in hunt for spies
• UPDATE (06-06-16): Islamic State Affiliate's Rise Alters Mideast Security
• Source: ISIS beheads 3 civilians on charges of cooperating with government agencies in Kirkuk
• Battle for Falluja: Saqlawiya town 'recaptured from IS'

4 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-05-16): Three Minnesota men convicted of conspiring to join Islamic State
• UPDATE (06-05-16): ISIS Extremists Burn 19 Yezidi Girls to Death in Mosul
• UPDATE (06-05-16): Federal Police forces announce killing 402 ISIS fighters during Fallujah liberation operations
• UPDATE (06-05-16): ISIS bombings: More than 50 people killed and injured in attacks in Iraq
• UPDATE (06-05-16): The advance on Fallujah has slowed, and Iraq's Shiite militias want to step in

3 June 2016

• UPDATE 
• UPDATE (06-05-16): Islamic State Threatens Terror Attacks in U.S., Europe
• UPDATE (06-05-16): Syrian army opens new front as Islamic State's many foes attack
• UPDATE (06-05-16): ISIS's Regional Campaign: May 2016
• UPDATE (06-03-16): ISIS Increasingly Aims to Kill Civilians Outside Syria, Iraq: UN

2 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-04-16): Germany arrests IS suspects over Duesseldorf plot
• UPDATE (06-04-16): Islam inspires ISIS fanatics to commit horrific terror attacks, BBC religion chief claims
• UPDATE (06-04-16): ISIS attacks have helped forge bonds of unity with Catholics, says Orthodox bishop
• UPDATE (06-04-16): Israel has homegrown Islamic State threat in hand - adviser to PM
• UPDATE (06-04-16): Nets Cover Gorilla Death 6x More Than ISIS Christian Beheading

1 June 2016

• UPDATE (06-16-16): ISIS recruits in the US legal system as of May 31, 2016
  
• UPDATE (06-02-16): Islamic State urges Muslims to destroy satellite tv sets
• UPDATE (06-02-16): Four plead guilty to financing terrorism [in Bangladesh]
• UPDATE (06-02-16): Fear for civilians as Islamic State halts Iraqi army at gates of Falluja