Islamic State Ongoing Updates - January 2017

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31 January 2017

• US military botches online fight against Islamic State

30 January 2017

• UPDATE (02-01-17): ISIS recruiter convicted for sending NYC college student to Syria
• UPDATE (02-01-17): Mosul: ISIS threatens to kill 350,000 children trapped in city if they try to leave
• Curfew's adopted to counter IS shelling of recaptured Mosul areas
• Islamic State's chief executioner - who has beheaded more than 100 people - is knifed to death in an ambush in Iraq
• Islamic State whip Mosul alms-givers for helping the poor without permission

28 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-30-17): ISIS leader with a $5-million bounty on his head for kidnapping of Americans is wounded in military airstrikes in the Philippines

26 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-30-17): Town square in France named after priest murdered by ISIS

24 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-30-17): Christians assess damage on Iraq's Nineveh plain, ravaged by ISIS

22 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-23-17): Losing in Iraq, ISIS seeks to shore up Syria presence 

20 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-23-17): ISIS destroys facade of Roman theater in Syrian city of Palmyra

19 January 2017

• Most Islamic State commanders in Mosul already killed, Iraqi general says
• Photos show unfinished Islamic State-made fighter jet seized by army

16 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-17-17): Boxing instructor who recruited for Islamic State arrested in Spain

14 January 2017

• UPDATE (02-01-17): Islamic State burns mother and 4 children in Hawija

13 January 2017

• UPDATE (02-01-17): Men found guilty of making terrorist speeches in Luton

11 January 2017

• British father-of-two and avid QPR fan is officially named as a member of ISIS terror cell 'The Beatles' as the US freezes his assets

10 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-11-17): Islamic State combat power waning, days numbered: Pentagon
• UPDATE (01-11-17): ISIS staging fewer truck attacks in Mosul: Pentagon
• UPDATE (01-11-17): Islamic State witholding water from 30 eastern Mosul districts

9 January 2017

• UPDATE (02-01-17): House arrest handed to Manitoba teen who wanted to join ISIS
• UPDATE (01-11-17): ISIL throws Iraqi man off roof building for alleged crime of homosexuality

8 January 2017

• Horrifying moment a truck driver mows down soldiers in Jerusalem - and REVERSES over them - killing four and injuring 15 before being shot dead at the wheel, as Israeli PM blames attack on ISIS
  
• Islamic State claims Baghdad car bomb attack: statement

7 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-08-17): 'ISIS will strike Italy soon': Warning as officers ordered to do more shooting practice
• UPDATE (01-08-17): Hero police officer shoots dead two ISIS terrorists wearing explosive belts in a dramatic gunfight captured on camera in the Saudi Arabian capital

6 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-08-17): Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting suspect Esteban Santiago-Ruiz 'told FBI he was forced to fight for ISIS'
• UPDATE (01-08-17): ISIS propaganda king killed: Coalition airstrike in Syria kills ISIS leader in charge of the terror group's finances and intelligence

5 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-08-17): Iraqi general says 70 percent of east Mosul retaken from Islamic State
• UPDATE (01-08-17): Al-Qaeda leader blasts rival jihadist group ISIS as 'liars' as their battle continues to spearhead a global jihad

4 January 2017

• Istanbul nightclub killer 'was sneaked into Turkey by sophisticated ISIS network under a secret codename and hidden in a safe house' before carrying out Turkish massacre 

3 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-04-17): What Christians are finding as they return to the Nineveh Plain

2 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-04-17): Mayor: Security forces repulse violent IS attack north of Baiji
• UPDATE (01-04-17): Military reinforcements arrive in Baiji to deter IS attacks
• UPDATE (01-04-17): Security forces impose curfew in Sharqat after IS shelling
• UPDATE (01-04-17): German police arrest Syrian refugee 'who asked ISIS for £150.000 to turn cars into suicide bombs he could drive into crowds of non-Muslims'
• Iraqi city officials urge Christian refugees to return after Islamic State driven out

1 January 2017

• UPDATE (01-04-17): ISIS claim responsibility for Istanbul nightclub atrocity as police hunt gunman who murdered 39 revellers in five-minute shooting spree
• ISIS attacks Iraqi police near Najaf, kills seven
• 8000 civilians held by Islamic State in western Anbar town

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - July 2015

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31 July 2015

• UPDATE (08-04-15): Despite Bombing, Islamic State Is No Weaker Than a Year Ago

30 July 2015

• UPDATE (08-05-15): Sad anniversary for women religious stranded in Kurdistan: 'We are living -- but it's like living in a cage'

29 July 2015

• UPDATE (08-05-15): Fla. terror suspect had been cleared for Key West airport job
• UPDATE (08-05-15): With arrest of a Western New York native, the fight with ISIS hits home
• UPDATE (08-04-15): New ISIS document reveals ‘grand plan’ to wage war in India, trigger ‘Armageddon'
• Cor Unum Coordinating Efforts to Aid Iraqis
• FBI: Lackawanna man tried to recruit for terrorist organization

28 July 2015

• UPDATE (08-04-15): Turkey joined the fight against the Islamic State, but not for the reasons you think 
• UPDATE (07-29-15): Florida Man Arrested in ISIS-Inspired Plot to Bomb Florida Beach
• UPDATE (07-29-15): Melkite Patriarch faults West's Middle East policies, but says Syrian Church will survive
• UPDATE (07-29-15): ‘I am an American': Man who was ‘ready for jihad’ before attempting to join ISIL sobs as he’s given 15 years prison
• Syrian Patriarch: Aid Given to Moderates Is Taken By Extremists
• Patriarch urges pope to visit Iraq
• Nato discusses Turkey-Syria border conflict
• Italian consulate bomb suspects killed in Cairo
• Turkey v Islamic State v Kurds: What's going on?
• UN official voices concern about Syria safe zone
• Summer camp for Iraqi Shiite boys: Training to fight IS

27 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-29-15): Petrified Jihadi John ‘ABANDONS ISIS – fearing the terror group no longer has use for him
• UPDATE (07-29-15): Turkey vows to strike anyone killing civilians in planned free zone
• UPDATE (07-28-15): F.B.I. Emphasizes Speed as ISIS Exhorts Individuals to Attack
• UPDATE (07-28-15): Coalition must seek a common goal in Syria
• UPDATE (07-28-15): U.S. State Dept. Bars Christians from Testifying about Persecution
• UPDATE (07-28-15): Garissa's Christians told 'worship here and you'll die' (Nigeria)
  
• UPDATE (07-28-15): 'There is no solution except Jihad in the path of Allah': Leader of Somali terror group Al-Shabaab sends out chilling call for fresh wave of terror attacks across east Africa

24 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-29-15): ISIS suspects reportedly arrested in Moscow suburb
• UPDATE (07-28-15): Knights of Columbus to Expand Humanitarian Assistance to Suffering Middle East Christians
• Iraq: More Expropriation of Christian Homes

23 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-24-15): Turkey's 200-Year War against 'ISIS'
• UPDATE (07-24-15): Turkey agrees to grant US access to Incirlik Air Base
• UPDATE (07-24-15): Report: Turkish jets strike IS targets in Syria
• Sorry, America: Iran Won't Defeat ISIS For You
• Syrian Christians Flee Asylum in Sweden Amid Harassment From Muslims Who Forced Them to Hide Their Crosses
• Turkey tanks open fire on ISIL over Syria border after soldier killed
• Turkish soldier shot dead as army and ISIS exchange fire
• Turkey army hits ISIL in Syria after shooting
• Iraqi Patriarch says ISIS is growing each day
• Patriarch calls lives of Middle East Christians 'bad' and 'less bad'
• Why my own father would have let IS kill me
• Donor fatigue is hurting efforts to help Christians fleeing ISIS, says Latin Patriarch

22 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-23-15): Iraq withdrawing troops from Nineveh plains; Christians uneasy
• UPDATE (07-23-15): Christian refugees languish in camps, looking for hope
• UPDATE (07-23-15): Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?
• “ISIS Vows to ‘Fill The Streets Of Paris With Dead Bodies'"
• Terror suspects arrested in Italy 'were targeting military base'
• Priest finds frustration build among Christians in Iraq camp
• Two arrested in Milan over ISIS support
• Italy police arrest two suspected Islamic State supporters
• The Prime Minister needs to face facts: ISIS is a religious problem
• Two suspected ISIS supporters arrested: 'We are in your streets. We are everywhere' say posts

21 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-22-15): Cubs of the Caliphate: The Children of ISIS
• UPDATE (07-22-15): Counter-terrorism chief rejects British passport deal for would-be extremists
• Man charged over alleged terror plot to attack US military in UK
• ISIS Transforming Into Functioning State That Uses Terror as Tool

20 July 2015

• Report: ISIS Kidnaps Three African Christians
• Islamic State group kidnaps 3 Christian workers in Libya
• Suruc explosion: At least 28 killed in Turkey border blast
• ISIS: The Anatomy of the Army of Terror
• Turkey Blast: Dozens of Students Killed in Suspected ISIS Suicide Attack in Border Town Near Kobani [VIDEO]
• Iraq officials say Islamic State bombs Ramadi sports stadium
• ISIL bans private internet access in Syria's Raqqa
• Suicide bomber from IS group believed to have carried out Suruc attack - Turkish officials

19 July 2015

• ISIS stronghold discovered in picturesque European village where everyone is ‘ready to respond to the summons to jihad' - Bosnia
• US-led airdrops shower leaflets over Islamic State territory
• Islamic State Reportedly Forces Children to Behead Dolls as 'Practice' in Training Camps

18 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-19-15): Violent protests rock Kashmir on Eid; Pakistan, IS flags raised
• UPDATE (07-19-15): Feds: Rochester terrorism case includes classified info
• UPDATE (07-19-15): UK will help US destroy IS
• UPDATE (07-19-15): Islamists attack Sinai checkpoints
• UPDATE (07-19-15): Police: Militants ambush Algerian army, kill 11soldiers
• ISIL claims deadly car bombing in Diyala province

17 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-23-15): As ISIS Corners Christians in the Middle East, Pope Francis Needs to Change His Priorities
• UPDATE (07-22-15): UK is denying refuge to Christians fleeing Isil, say church leaders
• UPDATE (07-21-15): ISIS could have been 'nipped in the bud' with attack on Assad in 2013 say ex UK defence chiefs
• UPDATE (07-20-15): Christians grow weary over rising threat of kidnapping in Syria, Iraq
  
• UPDATE (07-19-15): In shadow of war, Syrian Christians are trying to rebuild their lives
• UPDATE (07-19-15): IS told foiled French attack suspect to ‘hit’ France
• UPDATE (07-19-15): Two men arrested by gardai over suspected Isil terror links - Ireland
• UPDATE (07-19-15): ISIS Has Fired Chemical Mortar Shells, Evidence Indicates
• UPDATE (07-18-15): ISIL claims suicide bombing in Riyadh
• UPDATE (07-18-15): This Jewish man survived Nazi Germany. Now he's rescuing Christians from ISIS
• UPDATE (07-18-15): UK medical student recruited fellow British students in Sudan to join IS
• UPDATE (07-18-15): Iraq: Suicide car bomb kills at least 80 in eastern province

16 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-23-15): A cross to bear: the vanishing Christians of the Middle East - in pictures
• UPDATE (07-21-15): Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech security
• UPDATE (07-19-15): Islamic State punishes 94 it said violated Ramadan fast: Syria monitor
• UPDATE (07-19-15): ISIS-linked terrorist’s rocket attack sets navy warship ablaze in Mediterranean
• UPDATE (07-19-15): Inside the mind of an ISIS suicide bomb plotter: Unrepentant mastermind whose explosives killed hundreds of innocent people insists ‘I am no butcher… it was jihad'
• UPDATE (07-19-15): Sheffield Lake terrorism suspect indicted on guns, marijuana charges
• UPDATE (07-18-15): ISIS executed another journalist in Mosul, Iraq, the second one in less than 10 days
• UPDATE (07-18-15): NATO plans biggest exercise since 2002 to counter Islamic State

15 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-19-15): How ISIS sells Sharia law in Libya: Terror group erects chilling billboards ordering women they must wear baggy, heavy hijab that covers them completely and not wear perfume

14 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-20-15): Baghdad, Christians kidnapped and killed. Chaldean Patriarchate asks for protection and security
• UPDATE (07-20-15): The Chaldean Church of St. Joseph in Mosul converted into a mosque

13 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-20-15): Son of Boston Police capt. charged in connection with ISIS terrorism plot
• UPDATE (07-20-15): ISIS breaks own cruelty record: Blows up baby for demonstration

12 July 2015

• By day, at heart of counter-terror policing. And by night, preacher of extremism

11 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-20-15): John Kerry: Daesh biggest threat to US, not Russia
• UPDATE (07-12-15): Kosovo cuts Pristina water supply over alleged Isis plot to poison reservoir
• UPDATE (07-12-15): Second Tunisia terror attack foiled: Five ISIS extremists are shot dead in Islamic stronghold as thousands of British tourists are evacuated
• Cairo Explosion: Italy's Consulate Struck By Bomb, 1 Killed
• Islamic State 'behind blast' at Italian consulate in Cairo
• Islamic State photo: Statue of Liberty beheaded holding ISIS flag, NYC in flames
• Suspect charged in Canada for plotting ‘IS-inspired attacks

10 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-20-15): After Four Months, Why Are 20 Chaldean Iraqi Christians Who Fled ISIS Still Detained By Immigration Officials?
• UPDATE (07-12-15): ISIS’s female Gestapo wreaking terror on their own sex: They bite and whip any woman who steps out of line and force girls to become sex slaves. Most shocking of all? SIXTY of them are British
• Somalia terror group Al Shabaab ‘to pledge allegiance to ISIS’ in terrifying expansion of Caliphate

9 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-12-15): ISIS Steps Up Recruiting in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge
• UPDATE (07-11-15): FBI says it stopped Islamic State-inspired attacks for the Fourth of July
• UPDATE (07-10-15): FBI says thwarted Islamic State-inspired attacks on July 4

8 July 2015

• UPDATE (05-12-15): This man risks his life every day to rescue kidnapped women from Islamic State
• Deadly car bomb hits Shiite mosque in Yemen capital
• To Its Citizens, ISIS Shows A Softer Side
• A secret to IS success: Shock troops who fight to the death
• Belgium rescues 200 Aleppo Christians
• 'IS in Palestine' calls on Christians to quit Jerusalem

7 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-12-15): The Cardiff extremist who wanted to join Islamic State in Syria: How police caught their man
• UPDATE (07-12-15): Afghanistan's Hekmatyar Announces Support For IS In Fight Against Taliban
• UPDATE (07-10-15): 4 killed as ISIS destroys another Mosul church
• UPDATE (07-08-15): The Virtual 'Caliphate': Understanding Islamic State's Propaganda Strategy
• UPDATE (07-08-15): Mercy. Belonging. Utopia. ISIS propaganda strategy goes beyond beheadings and elaborate executions
• US only training 60 Syrian fighters, far below expectations
• Mosul: Islamic State abducts 111 children
• Indonesian jails host extremists who recruit for Islamic State from their cells
• Italian jihadist defends 'perfect' Islamic State
• Brothers arrested over links to Islamic State bombing in Kuwait

6 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-12-15): IS Boosts Russian-Language Propaganda Efforts
• UPDATE (07-08-15): Schoolteachers among six in Israel charged with supporting ISIS
• UPDATE (07-07-15): ISIS and the Hollywood Visual Style
• US campaign against Islamic State in Syria 'intensifying'
• Iraq launches assault on jihadi stronghold Fallujah
• The Pentagon is bragging about destroying war machines it probably lost to the Islamic State
• Tied to a tree and shot at nightfall: ISIS releases chilling video of two activists being interrogated and then executed for handing out anti-Shariah leaflets in Raqqa
• Man spotted wearing Islamic State flag in front of London’s Big Ben
• IS militants regain control of Ain Issa in northern Syria from Kurdish-led forces, reports say
• ISIS Murders Two of Syria’s Bravest Men
• Islamic State group fighters regain control of Syrian town

5 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-06-15): ISIS schoolgirl Amira Abase who fled London to join terrorists in Syria mocks victims of Tunisia massacre
• UPDATE (07-06-15): US-led coalition says it's carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syrian city of Raqqa

4 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-06-15): Three arrested in Pakistan with ISIS propaganda and London maps over planned 7/7 anniversary attack
• UPDATE (07-06-15): Spain Arrests Moroccan for Spreading ISIL Propaganda
• UPDATE (07-06-15): Missing UK family of 12 ‘feel safe after joining ISIS'
• UPDATE (07-06-15): Tunisia's president declares state of emergency after terrorist attack that killed 38 foreigners
• UPDATE (07-06-15): Video from Islamic State group appears to show mass execution of Syrian soldiers at ancient site of Palmyra
• UPDATE (07-06-15): New ISIS video shows execution of 25 men in ruins of amphitheater in ancient city of Palmyra

3 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-07-15): ISIS says it is their ‘religious duty’ to destroy Egypt’s pyramids and the Sphinx
• UPDATE (07-06-15): Syrian Christians Face New Threat From Rebel Alliance
• UPDATE (07-06-15): 'Islamic State in Palestine' threatens Christians in Jerusalem
• UPDATE (07-06-15): Israel closes Egyptian border, Country on high alert following ISIS clashes in Sinai
• UPDATE (07-06-15): Kenya Detains Alleged Islamic State Recruiters From Uganda
• UPDATE (07-06-15): 70 Armenian fighters join Syrian Kurds in war on ISIS
• UPDATE (07-06-15): IS says it destroyed archaeological pieces from Palmyra

2 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-06-15): US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons directly to Kurds to fight Islamic State
• ISIS is threatening Hamas in Gaza. That’s scary news
• EXCLUSIVE: The 30 Americans ALREADY arrested in 4th of July terror alert – including ‘bad b******s plotting another Boston bombing’, National Guardsman who wanted to ‘repeat Charlie Hebdo’ and ‘Minnesota Martyrs
• In turf war with Taliban in Afghanistan, Islamic State loyalists gain ground
• Bosnia: The cradle of modern jihadism?
• Floridians are Heading to Syria and Iraq to Fight ISIS

1 July 2015

• UPDATE (07-07-15): More than 42 MILLION Muslims 'support ISIS' – as experts warn the figure will grow
• UPDATE (07-02-15): ISIS Unlikely to Be Defeated Soon, Boding Ill for Iraqi Christians
• UPDATE (07-02-15): Clashes between IS militants & the army in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula leave more than 100 dead, the military says
• UPDATE (07-02-15): US blocks attempts by Arab allies to fly heavy weapons to Kurds to fight ISIS
• 15 security sites attacked simultaneously in north Sinai, says IS
• 10 planning to fight in Syria arrested: Four Italian converts to Islam among the suspects 
• IS branch claims deadly attacks in Egypt's Sinai
• Islamist cell planning attacks in Italy busted, 10 ready to fight in Syria arrested
• Two more arrested in Italy anti-terror sweep
• Islamic State threatens to take over Gaza because Hamas isn’t ruling by Shariah