Islamic State Ongoing Updates - May 2017

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31 May 2017

• UPDATE (06-03-17): Toronto 18 Terrorist Says He Wants to Get Out of Jail and Fight for ISIS

30 May 2017

• UPDATE (06-03-17): Catholic priest says he and 200 others held hostage in Philippines 
• UPDATE (06-03-17): Baghdad blasts: Ice cream shop among attack targets, 31 killed
• UPDATE (06-03-17): Philippines: abducted Christians used as 'bargaining chips'
• UPDATE (06-03-17): ISIS teenage fighters are 'shooting people dead for failing to quote the Koran' in besieged Philippines city as Duterte's military warns jihadists to 'surrender or die'
• UPDATE (06-03-17): 'Everything allowed in Sharia is done here': Indian 'ISIS recruiter offers youngsters back home women in a bid to lure them into joining him in Afghanistan terror camps'
• UPDATE (06-01-17): The Coptic martyrs of Minya: poignant accounts of their final moments
• UPDATE (06-01-17): ISIS in Southeast Asia: Philippines battles growing threat

28 May 2017

• UPDATE (06-01-17): Survivors of Egypt Christian bus attack recount their horror

27 May 2017

• UPDATE (06-01-17): ISIS says it carried out attack which killed 29 Coptic Christians as Egypt launches counter-strikes on the terror groups bases in Libya
• UPDATE (06-01-17): In Iraq, necessity makes priests become engineers

25 May 2017

• UPDATE (06-01-17): ISIS conquers Philippines city city of Marawi
• UPDATE (06-01-17): Christians 'are tied together and shot dead by ISIS militants' as US-trained special forces battle to retake besieged Philippines city from rampaging jihadis

26 May 2017

• UPDATE (06-01-17): ISIS calls for 'all-out war' on Western 'infidels' at the start of Ramadan and praises Manchester attack in sickening YouTube video

24 May 2017

• Duterte declares state of emergency as ISIS militants behead police chief and take Catholic priest hostage alongside worshipers in the Philippines hours after martial law is brought in

23 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-24-17): Seminarian who once saved the Eucharist from ISIS returns as a priest

22 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-24-17): ISIS Called Upon Followers to 'Hunt Your Prey' in UK Before Manchester Explosions

13 May 2017

• UPDATE (06-01-17): Meet the American women who are flocking to join ISIS

10 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-14-17): Nearly 10,000 Yazidis Killed or Kidnapped by ISIS in 2014 Takeover, New Estimates Show

19 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-24-17): Chilling ISIS video shows a terrorist who appears to be an American calling for lone wolf attacks on US soil

18 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-24-17): ISIS creates 'chemical weapons cell' in Syria made up of its top specialists from across its 'caliphate'
• UPDATE (05-24-17): Laptop bombs are a question of when, not if, UN official says as agency warns Europe will face an exodus of dangerous ISIS fighters defeated in Syria and Iraq this year

16 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-24-17): More than 16,000 Islamic State members killed since start of Mosul operations: Spokesperson

12 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-24-17): Battle for Raqqa begins this summer: US-backed alliance will assault Islamic State's Syrian bastion in June

9 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-24-17): Kidnapped Indian priest pleads for help in new video
• UPDATE (05-10-17): Despite heavy losses, ISIL's structures remain resilient

8 May 2017

• Got him! ISIS' Afghanistan leader wiped out in overnight raid on terror compound

7 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-08-17): Suspected ISIS militants kill Christian man in northern Sinai
• UPDATE (05-08-17): Egypt IS leader vows to escalate attacks on Christians
• Islamic State mounts fierce resistance on new Mosul front

5 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-07-17): ISIS Leader in Egpyt Warns Muslims to Avoid Christian Gatherings
• UPDATE (05-08-17): 8 Brazilian Islamic State supporters jailed for Olympic plot
• UPDATE (05-08-17): Feds say NJ man plotted pressure cooker bomb plot, joining ISIS
• UPDATE (05-08-17): 'Let's put bullets in them': Ex-marine, who allegedly supports ISIS and wants to start a race war, accused of trying to buy AK-47 from FBI informant

4 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-08-17): ISIS is building its own secret social media platform to rival Facebook where fanatics can recruit new jihadis and share vile beheading videos

3 May 2017

• UPDATE (05-02-17): Daesh massacre in Syria kills 46

2 May 2017

• Islamic State seeks to impose religious rules in Egypt's North Sinai
• Twin Cities ISIS defendant will remain in custody pending a ruling on probation violations

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - October 2016

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31 October 2016

• UPDATE (11-3-16): In city liberated from Islamic State, Iraqi bishop celebrates first Mass in over two years

30 October 2016

• UPDATE (11-3-16): 60 Minutes: American teen wanted to participate in ISIS executions
  
• UPDATE (11-3-16): IS claims responsibility for a knife attack in Germany that left a boy, 16, dead and his teenage girlfriend injured

29 October 2016

• UPDATE (11-3-16): The horror of ISIS' human shields: Terrified innocents of Mosul plead for their liberators to save, not shoot them as troops move in
• IS suicide bombing targeting Iraq Shiites kills 4

28 October 2016

• UPDATE (11-3-16): ISIS' bomb-making expertise leaves lethal legacy

27 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-29-16): US general says 800-900 ISIS fighters killed in Mosul offensive

26 October 2016

• UPDATE (11-3-16): Britain Terror Warning: ISIS jihadis 'will unleash attacks on Europe as payback for Mosul'
• UPDATE (10-29-16): U.S. Pushes Up Plan to Attack ISIS Capital to Stop Attacks in the West

25 October 2016

• Sunni Arabs forced to leave Kirkuk after Islamic State attack, residents say

24 October 2016

• Pope Francis denounces 'brutal acts of violence' being carried out by ISIS in Mosul
• Va. man pleads guilt to helping friend who wanted to join the Islamic State
• ISIS militants fleeing to Syria, says tribal leader
• Islamic State steps up counter-attacks as Mosul offensive enters second week

23 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-24-16): Christian girls who barely escaped ISIS credit Mary for their safety
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Turkey's Push to Join Battle for Mosul Inflames Tension with Iraq
• UPDATE (10-24-16): As battle for Mosul rages, Pope appeals for an end to violence in Iraq
• UPDATE (10-24-16): E.U. authorities brace for wave of Islamic State fighters after Mosul assault
• UPDATE (10-24-16): The Islamic State's Coming Rural Revival
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Turkish and Kurdish forces launch attacks on IS
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Iraqi airstrike on Tel Keppe kills ISIS Deputy Wali of Mosul
• UPDATE (10-24-16): ISIS militants storm Iraqi town of Rutba
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Barbaric ISIS brutally kills 250 children in dough kneader and burns others alive in oven

22 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-24-16): Iraq Forces Shaken by ISIS Resistance in Fight for Mosul
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Reframing Reversals: The Islamic State's media jihad
• UPDATE (10-24-16): ISIS Militants In Mosul Execute 284 Civilians, Including Children, As Offensive Intensifies: Report
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Iraqi army drives ISIS from Christian region near Mosul

21 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-24-16): ISIS in Asia: Islamic State's Abu Sayyaf Kidnaps South Korean Ship Captain and Crewmember in Philippines
• UPDATE (10-24-16): And now the bloody revenge for ISIS's crimes: Shocking videos appear to show Mosul civilians and even children being tortured with hammers by Western-backed Iraqi soldiers and militia
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Iraqi Christians celebrate after military take back ISIS territory

20 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-25-16): Man arrested at O'Hare admits to wanting to join ISIS
• UPDATE (10-25-16): How Islamic State Weaponized the Chat App to Direct Attacks on the West
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Arab-Israeli couple arrested for joining Islamic State in Iraq
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Inside the underground hide-out of an Islamic State leader
• UPDATE (10-24-16): Video shows joy of Christians freed from the oppression of ISIS
• UPDATE (10-22-16): 2 Indonesian Police Stabbed By Suspected Islamic Terrorists

19 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-24-16): The bloodbath begins: Mustard gas. Truck bombs. Trenches full of oil. And a million civilians being used as human shields. How ISIS will unleash hell in defense of their last Iraqi stronghold
• UPDATE (10-22-16): Anti-ISIS Iraqis marked and executed in Mosul
• UPDATE (10-22-16): Orange County Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Attempting to Aid ISIS
• UPDATE (10-22-16): Iraqi Christians rejoice over liberation of Qaraqosh

18 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-19-16):The battle for Mosul: Giant explosion rocks the battlefield as ISIS suicide car bomb detonates as it attempts to ram an Iraqi tank

17 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-22-16): Nelash Mohamed Das indicted on a charge of attempting to provide support to ISIS
• UPDATE (10-22-16): Iraqi refugee living in Houston pleads guilty to trying to help ISIS
• UPDATE (10-19-16): The ISIS apocalypse has been postponed but the militants might still believe in it

16 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-22-16): ISIS loses 'prophesied' town of Dabiq to Syrian rebels after short battle
• UPDATE (10-19-16): Iraqi forces begin assault to retake Mosul from Islamic State

15 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-22-16): Escambia Man Threatens ISIS Attacks on Schools, Beaches, Bases
• UPDATE (10-19-16): Cross-Channel ferries to get French armed guards to protect against ISIS attacks on holidaymakers
• UPDATE (10-19-16): Islamic State suicide bomber strikes funeral gathering in Iraq killing 35, wounding more than 60
• Two Suspected ISIS Recruits Traveling to Mexico Busted in Texas

 14 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-22-16): Milwaukee men charged with attempting to provide support to ISIS
• UPDATE (10-19-16): Islamic State crushes rebellion plot in Mosul as army closes in
• ISIS is using drones which are available for sale on Amazon as 'Trojan horses' to blow up its enemies in Iraq

13 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-15-16): Christians join the Battle for Mosul to win new province in northern Iraq

12 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-22-16): Islamic State threat to Kerala Christians worries leaders
  
• UPDATE (10-19-16): Report: ISIS is using exploding drones as battles for Iraq, Syria wear on

10 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-24-16): ISIS gunmen use machine guns to carry out mass executions in sickening new footage
• UPDATE (10-13-16): ISIS Crucifies 11 Christians Missionaries, Cuts Fingertips Off 12 Y-O in Front of Preacher-Father Before Killing Them
• UPDATE (10-11-16): ISIS Destroy Assyrian Church in Iraq

9 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-13-16): Christians in Syria Still Deprived of Their Homes Even as ISIS Loses Ground
• Former topless model held over Facebook terrorism links to Islamic State

8 October 2016

UPDATE (10-09-16): Almost 400 ISIS jihadis trained in Iraq and Syria are now at large on Britain's streets . . . as it's revealed just 14 fighters who have returned to the UK have been jailed

• UPDATE (10-09-16): Daesh retakes territory in Iraq
• UPDATE (10-09-16): UK airport terror fears as ISIS flag 'found stitched inside baggage handler's glove'

7 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-13-16): For the 'children of ISIS,' target practice starts at age 6. By their teens, they're ready to be suicide bombers

6 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-09-16): Islamic State recruits are above average when it comes to education, according to World Bank report
• IS bomb kills rebels at Turkey border crossing

5 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-13-16): 11 Christian Missionaries Crucified and Beheaded
• UPDATE (10-06-16): Rocket attack in Israel is delcared part of Islamic State's 'jihad against Jews'

4 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-09-16): ISIS Calls for Random Knife Attacks in Alleys, Forests, Beaches, 'Quiet Neighborhoods'
• UPDATE (10-07-16): ISIL releases posthumous report from Canadian who led terror attack on Dhaka restaurant
• UPDATE (10-07-16): ISIS fighters packing human bodies, kid's toys and fridges with bombs as they flee Iraq's towns and cities

3 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-09-16): India Arrests ISIS Cell Suspected of Plotting Attacks During Diwali
• UPDATE (10-09-16): Morocco says arrests 10 suspected female Islamic State militants
• UPDATE (10-09-16): Md. man charged with planning to kill US military member to support ISIS 

2 October 2016

• UPDATE (10-09-16): Suspected IS gunmen kill 6 police in Egypt's restless Sinai
   

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - June 2015

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30 June 2015

• UPDATE (07-01-15): Sputtering start to U.S. training of Syrian rebels
• UPDATE (07-01-15): Islamic State ‘storms Syrian town on Turkish border
• UPDATE (07-01-15): Fighters allied with Islamic State in Afghanistan are in contact with militants' Syrian headquarters, US army says
• UPDATE (07-01-15): ISIS militants behead two Syria women for witchcraft
• UPDATE (07-01-15): Islamic State in Egypt: A ‘Fiery Summer’ Awaits‘Worshipers of the Cross’
• UPDATE (07-01-15): IS militants attack Syrian town of Tal Abyad, lost to Kurdish fighters 2 weeks ago, activists say

29 June 2015

• UPDATE (07-01-15): Another suspected ISIS sympathizer arrested in New Jersey
• UPDATE (07-01-15): ISIS Threat In Israel: Islamic State Supporters Threaten Christians In Jerusalem, Vow Slaughter of Zionist Collaborators
• UPDATE (07-01-15): How do you cultivate an ISIS follower? New York Times shows how it's done
• UPDATE (07-01-15): Islamic State Expands to Russia

28 June 2015

• UPDATE (07-01-15): Filmed from a hotel balcony, the chilling moment ISIS gunman is seen sprinting across Tunisian beach after killing 38 innocent tourists
• UPDATE (06-29-15): A Chilling Message Was Sent to Christians from the ‘Islamic State in Palestine'

27 June 2015

• UPDATE (07-01-15): Kurdish forces drive IS fighters out of Syrian border town
• UPDATE (06-29-15): US Officials Warn of ISIS Attacks on July 4
• UPDATE (06-29-15): Horrific moment ISIS kill four gay men by throwing them from a roof
• UPDATE (06-29-15): 'An attack upon the nests of fornication, vice and disbelief in God': ISIS’s chilling words after Tunisian massacre which killed 38 as they warn ‘worse is to follow'
• Darwin teenager arrested after allegedly compiling hit list of people he wanted to behead

26 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-27-15): Man ‘Beheaded As Islamist Flag Found’ In France
• UPDATE (06-27-15): Grenoble attack: Man found beheaded and Islamist flag raised above factory in France – latest
• UPDATE (06-27-15): Suicide attack claimed by ISIS kills 13 at Kuwait Shiite mosque
• UPDATE (06-27-15): At least 27 tourists dead in Tunisian hotel attacks as gunmen ‘shoot people on sunbeds’ along beach packed with western holidaymakers

25 June 2015

• ISIS targets vulnerable Bosnia for recruitment and attack
• Islamic State attacks Kobani and pro-regime troops in Syria's north
• How Islamic State is moving in on al-Qaeda turf from Egypt & Libya to Algeria & Saudi Arabia
• Turkey 'let ISIL cross border to attack Kobane'
• Islamic State launches 2 major attacks in northern Syria

24 June 2015

• UPDATE (07-01-15): It looks like the Islamic State is minting itsown coins now, and see what’s on the back
• ISIL destroys ancient Islamic mausoleums in Syria's Palmyra
• ISIS destroys ancient Muslim shrines in Palmyra 
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• 23 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-29-15): ISIS destroys Palmyra shrine as group vows to ‘remove polytheism'
• UPDATE (06-29-15): Sickening new ISIS video shows caged prisoners lowered into a swimming pool and drowned, shot with an RPG and blown up with explosive-filled ‘necklaces,'
• UPDATE (06-29-15): First pictures of ISIS coins as terror group is set to issue its own currency
• UPDATE (06-24-15): ISIS Crucifies Two Children for Eating During Ramadan
• UPDATE (06-24-15): 'Returning to Iraq During IS Occupation was a Call from God'
• UPDATE (06-24-15): Grisly ISIS Video Seems Aimed at Quashing Resistance
• UPDATE (06-24-15): ISIS Is Begging For Your Attention - by Killing People with Rocket Launchers
• UPDATE (06-24-15): Can't We All Just Get Along and March on Raqqa?
• US says Benghazi attack suspect killed in Iraq

22 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-29-15): ISIS opens a new front on Europe’s doorstep: Chechan [sic] jihadi group with ‘up to 15,000′ fighters pledge allegiance to terror horde
• UPDATE (06-29-15): IS hangs 2 boys for eating in Ramadan: monitor
• UPDATE (06-23-15): Islamic State web accounts to be blocked by new police team

21 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-23-15): Three sisters, nine children, one dangerous journey to the heart of ISIS. What is the lure of the caliphate?
• UPDATE (06-23-15): Why Assad may be helping Islamic State’s offensive 

19 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-29-15): Former Tajik OMON commander threatens to cut off his own brother’s head
• UPDATE (06-29-15): Man arrested on terrorism-related charges in North Olmsted
• UPDATE (06-29-15): ISIS Offers Female Slaves As Top Prizes For Koran Competition
• UPDATE (06-23-15): ISIS-Imposed Fuel Embargo Threatens Syria’s Medical Centers

18 June 2015

• UPDATE (07-02-15): Saddam's former army is secret of success for Baghdadi's Islamic State
• UPDATE (06-29-15): New Jersey man charged with plotting to support terror group
• Inside Islamic State group's rule: Creating a nation of fear

17 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-17-18): Dozens killed and injured in Sanaa mosque blasts
• UPDATE (06-18-15): Facebook and Twitter told they MUST remove and report terrorists on their networks
• UPDATE (06-18-15): Christians Persecuted By ISIS Ask U.S. Christians for Help
• The Islamic State's Control Now Extends Over Half of Syria
• Taliban urge Islamic State to stop interference in Afghanistan
• College student faces jail for trying to run off to join ISIL
• His life interrupted by ISIS, a young Chaldean Iraq takes up arms
• Islamic State sympathizers online claim Yemen bomb attacks
• [IS claims] Deadly blasts in Yemeni capital [that] strike Houthi HQ
• ISIS luring youth from Ain al-Hilweh to war in Syria, Iraq
• The Islamic State's Ramadan Threat

16 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-18-15): Syrian regime 'launches air strike on world famous ancient city of Palmyra' 
• UPDATE (06-17-15): Revealed: How merciless retreating ISIS fighters booby trap beds and bathrooms with mines to blow up innocent civilians
• UPDATE (06-17-15): U.S. arrests New York man for Islamic State-inspired bomb plot
• UPDATE (06-17-15): Egyptian militants pledge allegiance to IS during Cairo trial
• Britons make up half the foreign legion fighting ISIS 
• The military strategy behind IS conquests
• Offering Services, ISIS Digs In Deeper in Seized Territories

15 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-17-15): Patriarch's new book makes case for just war to defend Christians in Iraq
• UPDATE (06-17-15): The Story Behind ‘Amreeki Witness,’ The 17-Year-Old Tech-Savvy Virginian Who Ran An ISIS Twitter Account
• UPDATE (06-17-15): Child Fighters in IS Video Pledge to Defeat and Kill Obama, Enemy Armies
• UPDATE (06-16-15): Burial set for American killed fighting Islamic State
• UPDATE (06-16-15): The fake battle that fooled IS supporters - and their opponents
• UPDATE (06-16-15): Dramatic images at Turkey's border with Syria as women, children flee ISIL near Tel Abyad
• UPDATE (06-15-15): Syrian Kurds 'seize Tal Abyad' 
• UPDATE (06-16-15): Erdoğan views PYD as threat, prefers ISIL control in northern Syria

14 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-17-15): West Yorkshire teenager is ‘UK’s youngest suicide bomber'
• UPDATE (06-17-15): British ‘Doctor’ Urges Skilled Muslims to Join Islamic State

13 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-16-15): Ethnic cleansing charged as Kurds move on Islamic State town in Syria
• UPDATE (06-14-15): In White House's Iraq debate, military brass pushed for doing less

12 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-17-15): ISIS, Pak flags raised after Mirwaiz sermon in Srinagar (India)
• UPDATE (06-14-15): FBI: Men who plotted with Boston terror suspect readily admitted ISIS support
• UPDATE (06-14-15): Sources: ISIS terrorists using chaotic Libya as new ‘route to the West'
• UPDATE (06-14-15): Islamic State Propaganda: Key Elements of the Group's Messaging
• US spending on Islamic State fight totals $2.7bn
• Body of American killed fighting IS handed over to family

11 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-14-15): FBI: Mesquite man lied about Islamic State pledge
• UPDATE (06-14-15): Christians Suspect Islamic State Influencing Muslims in Palestinian Territories, Israel — Increased radicalization seen in attacks, rhetoric
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Patriarch laments Islamic State's takeover of Mosul
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Northern Va. teen pleads guilty to supporting ISIS
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Mosul prelate calls for liberation of city, Nineveh Plain - or mass asylum in the West
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Fifth man charged in New York in ISIS recruitment plot
• UPDATE (06-12-15): The war in Iraq made room for the rise of ISIS: a cautionary tale that the 2016 presidential candidates should heed
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Patriarch laments Islamic State’s takeover of Mosul
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Nearly 600 'martyrs' of ISIS massacre exhumed from mass grave in Iraq
• American Keith Broomfield Killed Fighting Against ISIS in Syria
• Isis's deadliest atrocity: 600 bodies confirmed found following 'worst massacre' by jihadists 
• The Conquest of Constantinople: The Islamic State Targets a Turkish Audience 

10 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-17-15): 100,000 Christian displaced from Mosul, says official
• UPDATE (06-14-15): Australia: ISIS has Radioactive Material it could use to develop WMD
• UPDATE (06-12-15): One year after the fall of Mosul, Iraqi Christians remain in painful limbo
• UPDATE (06-12-15): What Should We Do if the Islamic State Wins?
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Forced out by ISIS, Iraq's Christians start over
• UPDATE (06-11-15): American volunteer against ISIS killed in Syria
• UPDATE (06-11-15): ISIS prisoner forced to dig his own grave in the desert before being shot in the back of the head as ISIS brings its ruthless executions to Egypt
  
• UPDATE (06-11-15): In Syria, Christians Are Caught in 'Demonic Conflict'
• UPDATE (06-11-15): How Boko Haram Courted and Joined the Islamic State 
• UPDATE (06-11-15): Iraqi Bishop recalls exodus after Mosul’s fall

9 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-16-15): The savagery of ISIS is meticulously planned and follows a textbook, says Malise Ruthven
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Christian Patriarchs plead: help us survive in Syria
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Mideast Patriarchs urge the world to help persecuted Christians survive
• UPDATE (06-12-15): Either repentance or death: Islamic State imposes regulations on Syrians
• UPDATE (06-11-15): Inside Mosul: Residents recount how IS took over their lives
• ISIS captures 88 Eritrean Christians in Libya, US official confirms
• Religious freedom commission: US should do more to assist religious minorities in Iraq
• Hezbollah repels IS attack on Lebanon-Syria border
• Mosul church turned into mosque by ISIS
• Secret video and testimony from Iraqi city of Mosul reveals life under Islamic State

8 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-14-15): O.C. men plead not guilty to plotting to fight for Islamic State
• UPDATE (06-09-15): Islamic militants announce plan to transform Mosul church into mosque
• UPDATE (06-09-15): Why business is booming under the Islamic State one year on
• UPDATE (06-08-15): U.S. reports 21 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
• US does not yet have "complete strategy" for helping Iraq regain territory from Islamic State 

7 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-08-15): As ISIS brutalizes women, a pathetic feminist silence
• UPDATE (06-08-15): Iraq: Troops advance against IS in key refinery town
• UPDATE (06-08-15): UK to send 125 military trainers to help Iraqi soldiers in battle against Islamic State, PM announces
• UPDATE (06-08-15): Islamic State Kidnaps 86 Eritrean Refugees, They Fail Koran Test

6 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-09-15): Video calls for jihad in Balkans on eve of pope’s visit
• UPDATE (06-08-15): IMF to hand Iraq $830m emergency funding as it struggles to battle IS

5 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-09-15): Michael Todd Wolfe man gets 82 months for attempt to aid terrorists
• UPDATE (06-09-15): ISIL tells Balkan Muslims to ‘either join it here, or kill there'
• UPDATE (06-09-15): Iraqi prelate calls for additional military against Islamic State
• UPDATE (06-08-15): Apparently there are now also foreign fighters with IS from Madagascar
• UPDATE (06-08-15): Islamic State infiltrates Iraqi Kurdistan
• UPDATE (06-08-15): White House Invites Millennials To Thwart ISIS' Recruitment Efforts
• UPDATE (06-08-15): Islamic State fighters at the gates of northeast Syrian city
• UPDATE (06-08-15): "Moron" Islamic State member's bragging on social media leads to US bomb attack

4 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-09-15): Syria: Two-Time World Thai Boxing Champion from Germany, Valdet Gashi, Joins Isis
• UPDATE (06-09-15): Prophet Nahum's tomb threatened by Islamic State advance
• UPDATE (06-09-15): Warda: Military intervention is needed to stop the ISIS cancer
  
• UPDATE (06-08-15): Kurdish Peshmerga Say They Need Weapons After ISIS Seizes Iraqi Arsenal
• UPDATE (06-08-15): How IS seeks sectarian war in Saudi Arabia
• UPDATE (06-08-15): What an Estimate of 10,000 ISIS Fighters Killed Doesn't Tell Us

3 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-08-15): Warning over growth of Islamic State's cyber-threat
• UPDATE (06-08-15): Local Islamic State-linked fighters behead 10 Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan
• UPDATE (06-04-15): Syrian prelate begs West to intervene against Islamic State; cathedral severely damaged
• UPDATE (06-04-15): U.S. says 10,000 Islamic State militants killed in nine-month campaign
• FBI Arrests Man in Connection with Terrorism Investigation of Boston Man Fatally Shot by Officers

2 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-11-15): 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Actor Michael Enright Fighting ISIS in Syria
• UPDATE (06-03-15): Source: Man fatally shot by officers in Boston part of terror network
• ISIS bans pigeon breeding – punishable by public flogging – because seeing birds’ genitals overhead offends Islam
• US accuses Syria of backing Islamic State's Aleppo advance
• Report: Islamic State kidnaps hundreds of children for terror recruitment
• US Air Force Absent as Daesh/ISIL Advances on North Aleppo Against Sunni Rebels
• The Islamic State's Saudi Chess Match
• US-led coalition doubles down on IS group strategy
• Central Asians respond to the lure of Islamic State

1 June 2015

• UPDATE (06-03-15): ISIL we R here’ graffitied at elementary school playground in Salem
• UPDATE (06-02-15): Two US jihadis who made ISIS propaganda videos – including one on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list – ‘are killed in Iraqi air strike
• UPDATE (06-02-15): Islamic State militants are just 7 miles from main highway connecting Aleppo to Turkish border
• UPDATE (06-02-15): Islamic State Advances Further into Syria's Aleppo Province
  
• UPDATE (06-02-15): Islamic State Uses Rome's History, Savagely Executes People In Bloody Spectacle at Colosseum
• Men brace for ‘beard patrols’ in Iraq’s IS-held Mosul
• ISIS Announces New Plans to Conquer Rome
• The musicians refusing to dance to IS's tune 
• ISIS’s targeting of Saudi Arabia means awful things for the U.S.
• Islamic State militants 'filmed torturing Syrian boy'
• Islamic State bomb attack 'kills 45 police officers'
• IS revamps recruitment, with savvy, professional broadcasts
• Middle East map carved up by caliphates, enclaves and fiefdoms
• ISIS captured 2,300 Humvee armoured vehicles from Iraqi forces in Mosul