Islamic State Ongoing Updates - November 2019

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24 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): Libya's civil war creates opening for ISIS return as counterterrorism effort falters

23 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): U.S. Central Command orders 500 military personnel to resume fight against ISIS in eastern Syria - a year after Trump shocked allies by withdrawing most of his troops from the country

18 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): Iraqi spy chief warns ISIS is rebuilding

13 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): 'Spectacular' ISIS attack on a Western city is 'expected' because of Turkey's Syria incursion and West's refusal to take back prisoners, Kurdish general warns

12 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): ISIS is targeting Syria's Christians. Vicar of Aleppo: We are under siege
• UPDATE (12-01-19): Germany detains three Islamic State suspects over attack plan
• UPDATE (12-01-19): What radicalized ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
• UPDATE (12-01-19): Armenian Catholic priest killed in Syria; ISIS claims responsibility
• UPDATE (11-12-19): Dozens attend funeral of IS-slain priest in northeast Syria

4 November 2019

• UPDATE (11-07-19): Turkey captures slain ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's older sister amid hopes she will be an 'intelligence' goldmine after being found living in a trailer in Syria

3 November 2019

• UPDATE (11-07-19): Mali Says 54 Are Killed in Jihadist Attack on Army; ISIS Claims Responsibility
• UPDATE (11-07-19): Islamic State Turns to Teen-Friendly TikTok, Adorning Posts with Pink Hearts

1 November 2019

• UPDATE (11-07-19): 'We Know Exactly Who He Is!' Trump claims to know identity of new ISIS leader despite terror experts remaining stumped

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - March 2019

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29 March 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): 'Life was better under ISIS': Inside the terror group's devastated former stronghold of Mosul where conditions are so bad some desperate locals want the extremists to return

27 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-29-19): Iraqi 'ISIS supporter' is arrested for 'trying to derail German trains' after jihadists called for terror attacks on railway lines
• Where is the Islamic State group still active in the world?

25 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-29-19): As ISIS fell, Syrian hospital inundated by wave of its children
• UPDATE (03-27-19): ISIS plot to direct new terror attacks in Europe uncovered after group loses last Syrian stronghold

24 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-27-19): ISIS fighters plot more attacks in Europe including kidnappings and suicide blasts after caliphate loses its last Syrian stronghold
• UPDATE (03-27-19): All ISIS Has Left Is Its Money. Lots of It.

23 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-27-19): The death of ISIS: US-back Syrian forces say desperate caliphate has lost its last stronghold after letting women take up arms in its defense … but what has become of its leader Baghdadi?
• UPDATE (03-27-19): French company says rocket propellant supply sold to Turkey now with ISIS
• ISIS caliphate defeated: Victory declared as Islamic State loses last of its territory
• ISIL 'totally eliminated' in Syria: Caliphate destroyed in final stronghold

22 March 2019

• The Islamic State's Rehabilitation in Libya and its Post 2016 War of Attrition
• Military Interventions, Jihadi Networks, and Terrorist Entrepreneurs: How the Islamic State Terror Wave Rose So High in Europe
• White House boasts that ISIS has lost '100 percent' of its territory in Syria - and Trump proudly shows off upside down maps to prove it

21 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-29-19): Supreme Knight Visits Iraq, Pledges Additional Support to Genocide-Targeted Communities
• UPDATE (03-22-19): Amendments to the Terrorist Designations of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

20 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-22-19): Analysis: Turkey's IS crackdown yields results but long-term challenges remain
• UPDATE (03-21-19): Has the Islamic State returned to western Anbar?

18 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-21-19): US-backed fighters seize positions inside ISIS's last Syrian stronghold after pounding the enclave with artillery and airstrikes overnight
• UPDATE (03-21-19): ISIS Spokesman Ends Silence by Calling for Retaliation Over New Zealand Massacres 
• UPDATE (03-21-19): Trump Says ISIS Is Defeated. Reality Says Otherwise

15 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-21-19): ISIS suicide bombers attack crowds fleeing terror group's last bastion as US-backed forces move in

13 March 2019

•  UPDATE (03-14-19): 3,000 ISIS members surrender as US-backed Syrian forces continue to assault the terror group's last holdout

12 March 2019

• 2000 people - mainly ISIS militants - surrender to US-backed Syrian forces closing in on their last strip of territory after the terror group complained they were being subjected to a 'holocaust'

10 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-12-19): SDF attack Islamic State group's Syria enclave Baghuz

9 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-12-19): 'Never-ending' numbers in last IS scrap shock US-backed fighters

8 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-12-19): From caliphate to car park: ISIS fighters hunker down in makeshift camp beside battered vehicles on their last scrap of territory as US-backed fighters prepare to move in

 4 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-12-19): ISIS militants are using civilian human shields as they fight US-backed troops in their last remaining Syrian stronghold but 'will still be defeated soon'
• UPDATE (03-12-19): Syria: Children Leaving Last ISIS Areas Show Signs of Severe Psychological Distress
• UPDATE (03-12-19): Islamic State Might Be Coming Out Of Its Winter Hibernation In Iraq

3 March 2019

• UPDATE (03-12-19): ISIS zealots face final assault as coalition forces close in on desperate jihadists

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