Islamic State Ongoing Updates - May 2019

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31 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): ISIS wife and alleged Kayla Mueller jailor: "Our husbands became like wild animals"
• UPDATE (06-20-19): Islamic State group: Spain arrests man 'financing return of fighters'

30 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): Analysis: Islamic State claims in the DRC
• Lyon Bomb Suspect Told Police He Pledged Allegiance to ISIS

29 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): Islamic State suspects sent by U.S. from Syria to Iraq

28 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): ISIS 'is using wildfire as terror weapons against its enemies' - with the group claiming responsibility for arson attacks that scorched land in Iraq and Syria and warning that 'this is just the beginning'

12 May 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): On-the-run ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is hiding out in eastern Afghanistan, claims security expert

3 May 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): 
• UPDATE (05-06-19): Welcome to the Post-Middle East ISIS

2 May 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): Life under ISIS: Raqqa's Christians tell their story

1 May 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): Islamic State sowing terror worldwide, warns Iraqi prelate

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - February 2015

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28 February 2015

• UPDATE (03-02-15): ISIS pays parents for children to attend jihadist 'cub' camps
• UPDATE (03-01-15): ISIS killer Mohammed Emwazi had link to 2005 London bomb plot
• UPDATE (03-01-15): Turkey signals readiness to fight ISIL after relocating tomb
• UPDATE (03-01-15): ISIS' Next Crusade
• UPDATE (03-01-15): Mid-South professor targeted by ISIS
• UPDATE (03-01-15): ISIS is now threatening to murder a college professor in Tennessee
• UPDATE (03-01-15): Rick Santorum explains why the United States must lead in rolling back the Islamic caliphate
• Hundreds of Islamic extremists like Jihadi John have been able to slip out of Britain to join ISIS because they ‘weren’t properly monitored
• Commander of the Vatican Gendarmerie: Here's how we protect the Pope
• Islamic State fighters attack Samarra ahead of army offensive
• UN condemns Islamic State's 'barbaric terrorist acts' in Iraq

27 February 2015

• UPDATE (03-02-15): ISIS: Christians Worse Than Murderers
• UPDATE (03-02-15): ISIS: Pro-Palestinians in Europe Actually Sleeper ISIS Cells
  
• UPDATE (03-01-15): Islamic State conspiracy theories sway Iraqis
• UPDATE (02-27-15): Emwazi and the London schoolmates who became militant jihadists
• UPDATE (02-28-15): Suspect identified in Indiana's ISIS-related terror arrest
• UPDATE (02-28-15): Iraqi Christians defy ISIS with Stations of the Cross
• UPDATE (02-28-15): Islamic State: All Churches in Cairo Must Be Destroyed
• UPDATE (02-28-15): Syrian Archbishop Laments New Attacks on Christians As His Own City Comes Under Fire
• UPDATE (02-28-15): Syria: Number of Christian hostages rises to more than 300
• UPDATE (02-28-15): ISIS savages murder another 'gay' man in Syria
• UPDATE (02-28-15): How polite west London pupil became bloodthirsty Jihadi John
• ISIS and civilization just don't mix
• Iraq minorities 'threatened with eradication'

26 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-28-15): ISIS Onslaught Engulfs Assyrian Christians as Militants Destroy Ancient Art
• UPDATE (10-27-15): Minn. teen pleads guilty to trying to support terrorism
• UPDATE (02-27-15): All It Takes To Cross From Turkey to ISIS-Held Syria Is $25
• UPDATE (02-27-15): CNN's 'religion expert' has absolutely no idea why ISIS is targeting Christians
• UPDATE (02-27-15): FBI: 'We Are Losing the Battle' to Stop ISIS Radicalization Online
• UPDATE (02-27-15): Obama's new Middle East mantra: Caught by Surprise
• UPDATE (02-27-15): Pentagon Admits No Strategy to Blunt ISIS Expansion 
• UPDATE (02-27-15): Turkish border closed as Christian hostages in Syria spike to 250
• UPDATE (02-27-15): ISIS thugs take a hammer to civilization: Priceless 3,000-year-old artworks smashed to pieces in minutes as militants destroy Mosul museum
• UPDATE (02-27-15): 'Islamic State' Begins Executing Seized Christians
• UPDATE (02-27-15): Apostolic Nuncio in Syria says population feels abandoned
• IS begins executing seized Christians
• Ignoring Hitler did not stop him. Ignoring the Islamic State will not stop it.
• A Message in Blood: ISIS and the Meaning of the Cross
• Coptic Monks Lie Down in Front of Bulldozers to Protect Ancient Christian Site
• Paradise jihadis: Maldives sees surge in young Muslims leaving for Syria 
• ISIS destroys thousands of books and manuscripts in Mosul libraries
• Profile of Mohammed Emwazi aka 'Jihadi John'
• IS militant 'Jihadi John' named as Mohammed Emwazi from London 
• 'Jihadi John': Islamic State is identified as Londoner Mohammed Emwazi 
• Identity of terrorist known as 'Jihadi John' reportedly revealed
• ISIS Destroys Ancient 2,700 Year-Old Artifacts at Ninawa Museum in Mosul, Iraq
• Why Bashar Assad Won't Fight ISIS
• On Lenten retreat in Ariccia Pope prays for Christian hostages in Syria
• ISIS in Syria has abducted 220 from Christian villages this week, monitor says
• Brooklyn men accused of plot to join ISIS wanted to 'strike fear in the hearts of infidels'
• Who are the Assyrian Christians under attack from the Islamic State?

25 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-28-15): 12 Things to Know About "What ISIS Really Wants"
• UPDATE (02-26-15): ISIS burns Mosul library: Why terrorists target books
• UPDATE (02-26-15): ISIS Heads to Rome
• UPDATE (02-26-15): Flurry of IS attacks divert Iraqi Army's Attention
• UPDATE (02-26-15): ISIS burns thousands of books and rare manuscripts from Mosul's libraries
• UPDATE (02-26-15): 'Christian' specified in latest White House condemnation of Islamic State violence
• UPDATE (02-26-15): Islamic State seize 100 Iraqi tribesmen before battle for Tikrit
• Coptic Christians march to White House
• Islamic State territory: Easy to slip in, harder to get out
• Foreign IS Recruits using Fake Syrian Passports
• NBC Out to Lunch on ISIS's Mass Kidnapping of Christians; ABC, CBS Move On
• Syrian Kurds cut ISIS supply line near Iraq; fears for Christians mounts
• ISIS-supporter confirms my point: West too hip to deal
• 3 Brooklyn residents charged with plotting to help ISIS
• Fears grow for abducted Syrian Christians
• More than 100 men and boys kidnapped by ISIL in Iraq
• Amnesty: World response to ISIL 'shameful'
• Terror Continues for Syria's Christians
• Official says 20,000 Egyptians flee after beheadings, airstrikes
• Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 150 Christians
• Syria fighting kills 132 Islamic State fighters: monitor

24 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-26-15): How ISIS Plans to Sack Rome
• UPDATE (02-26-15): Archbishop Aquila: Coptic martyrs give us strength 
• UPDATE (02-26-15): The plight of Syria's vulnerable Christians
• UPDATE (02-25-15): Can We Win the War Against ISIS By Focusing on Social Media?
• UPDATE (02-25-15): NBC, Telemundo, Univion Ignore ISIS Kidnapping at Least 70 Christians in Syria
• UPDATE (02-25-15): Spain Breaks Up ISIS Recruiting Ring Targeting Young Women in Morocco
• ISIS Burns 8,000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
• Patriarch urges prayers after at least 90 Christians kidnapped in Syria
• Churches burned as ISIS carry out mass kidnapping of Christians in Syria
• Missing Korean teen at ISIS training camp
• Tunisia arrests about 100 militant suspects, signs of ISIS influence
• Syria: Extremists seize Christian towns
• Islamic State in Syria abducts at least 90 from Christian villages: monitor
• 90 Assyrians were kidnapped by the IS in Tal Tamer countryside
• Swiss Guard: We are ready to defend Pope from ISIS
• ISIS kidnap at least 90 people from Christian villages in Syria, human rights watchdog reveals
• 15,000 Egyptians flee Libya after warning

23 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-27-15): ISIS preparing to declare Islamic emirate in Lebanon
• UPDATE (02-25-15): Jordan furious over Pentagon leak on secret anti-terror training camp
• UPDATE (02-24-15): Sweden's Multicultural Center Expert on Islamaphobia Joins ISIS 
• UPDATE (02-24-15): Italy and Vatican City Are On High Alert After Threats From ISIS
• UPDATE (02-24-15): Heaven in the Face of Hell
• UPDATE (02-24-15): France bans six from travel to join ISIS
• UPDATE (02-24-15): ISIS Attacks Assyrian Villages in Syria, 4 Killed, Dozens Captured, Churches Burned
• UPDATE (02-24-15): Sweden’s national job agency fires its entire network of ‘immigrant resettlement assistants’ over fears they were finding them jobs – as ISIS militants
• Patriarch Sako: 'Italy Must Not Fall Into the Trap of ISIS Threats
• Extra troops posted in Rome following ISIS threat
• France deploys aircraft carrier in Gulf for ISIS fight
• Would-be ISIS fighters slipping through Europe's dragnet, presenting security challenge
• Thirty jihadis return home to Australia after being foreign fighters

22 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-23-15): Coptic Christians rally to bring attention to IS beheadings
• UPDATE (02-23-15): Italy and Vatican on guard after ISIL threat
• UPDATE (02-23-15): 'Devotion to Islam' - Not Unemployment - Root Cause of Jihad
  
• UPDATE (02-23-15): Jordanian King calls battle against ISIS a 'Third World War' inside Islam
• UPDATE (02-23-15): Iran ends mission defending western border against Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-23-15): Islamic State propaganda video shows Kurdish soldiers encaged, paraded about
• UPDATE (02-23-15): Islamic State militants claim attacks on Iranian ambassador's residence in Libya
• UPDATE (02-23-15): Why are girls flocking to ISIS?
• Migrants tell of deepening chaos in Libya: 'Everyone is armed now'

21 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-23-15): ISIS infighting: Tensions rise over use of Yazidi sex slaves, loss of Kobani and poor services in areas controlled by group
• UPDATE (02-22-15): Inside the Islamic State 'capital': No end in sight to its grim rule
• UPDATE (02-22-15): The new Martyrs of Libya added to the Coptic Synaxarium
• UPDATE (02-22-15): Four Egyptian Christians held hostage in Libya, says family
• UPDATE (02-22-15): ISIS Issues New Threat on White House
• Aussie jihadists were on the dole
• Bradford man guilty of promoting terrorist group on Facebook
• Syria crisis: Fear grows for three UK schoolgirls

20 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-22-15): East Lansing resident arrested trying to leave country, claiming to go join Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-21-15): Islamic State bombers kill dozens in suicide bombings in eastern Libya
• UPDATE (02-21-15): American in Iraq training 'a Christian army' to fight Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-21-15): Dominicans keep hope alive among Iraqi Christian community
• UPDATE (02-21-15): In Newly Sophisticated Boko Haram Videos, Hints of Islamic State Ties
• UPDATE (02-21-15): Coptic Christian Mother Forgives, Prays for ISIS Slaughterers of Son
• UPDATE (02-21-15): ISIS Could Cost Italy Billions
• Rome Mayor: Clashed Show Security Lacking in Capital
• Car bombs kill 45 in eastern Libyan city
• Most Italians fear an attack from ISIS

19 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-21-15): US Teen Hamza Naj Ahmed Indicted for Attempting to Join Islamic State in Turkey
• UPDATE (02-21-15): Libya: ISIS wages war on music by burning drums, saxophones and other instruments
• UPDATE (02-21-15): Photographs and memories all that remain after kidnap of Iraqi toddler
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Three arrested seeking to join ISIS in Libya
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Who holds the real power in IS?
• UPDATE (02-20-15): U.S. Muslims Take on ISIS' Recruiting Machine
• UPDATE (02-20-15): U.S. Won't Back Egypt's Attacks on ISIS
• UPDATE (02-20-15): ISIS plans to invade Europe through Libya - report
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Against backdrop of ISIS horror, Egyptian Catholic Copts consecrate first-ever church in Sinai
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Iraq-Kurdish force of 25,000 'to retake Mosul from ISIS'
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Cardinal Dolan: ISIS threatens whole civilization - no one can be silent
• IS Urges Jihadist Attacks on Rome
• Why the Islamic State has its eyes on Libya
• Despite death threats, Bishop of Tripoli refuses to flee Libya
• United Nations investigates claim of ISIS organ theft
• Could ISIS terrorists really invade Italy?
• Itay tells UN it is ready for a lead role in Libya
• ISIS Is Not a Terror Group: Why Counterterrorism Won't Stop the Latest Jihadist Threat
• Libya, Egypt ask U.N. to lift arms embargo to fight Islamic State
• Libya urges UN to lift arms embargo to tackle IS

18 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-20-15): Italy prepares for war with ISIS from the south
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Libya civil war: Italy ready to train anti-ISIS forces to protect its own borders
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Italy presses UN to achieve political solution for Libya
• UPDATE (02-20-15): Kyrgzstan detains imam for 'encouraging followers to fight for ISIS'
• UPDATE (02-19-15): Italy warns Islamic State is allying with Libyan Islamist groups
• UPDATE (02-19-15): Italy deploys soldiers to guard against terror attack
• UPDATE (02-19-15): Vatican, Italy on heightened alert over Islamist threat
• UPDATE (02-19-15): Islamic State harvesting human organs for revenue?
• UPDATE (02-19-15): 'They'll be killed': State tries to clarify spokeswoman's remarks on plan to fight Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-19-15): ISIS Boasted of These Christians' Deaths. Here Are the Lives They Lived
• Brother of slain Coptic Christians thanks ISIS for including their words of faith in murder video
• Italy: ISIS poses 'evident risk' in Libya
• Peshmerga 'repel major IS attack in northern Iraq'
• Italy fears ISIS invasion from Libya, Muslim refugee 'Trojan Horse'
• Chaldean Patriarch urges Muslims: Join us in our Lenten fast to obtain the gift of peace
• Italy on heightened alert over Islamist threat
• Nuncio to Iraq says international force to allow displaced to return to their homes is a priority
• Kurdish forces repel ISIS offensive near Irbil
• Cardinal Parolin: Action needed in Libya, but through the United Nations
• Italy: ISIS could merge with Libya militias

17 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-23-15): Four detained in Sweden for funding IS: report
• UPDATE (02-19-15): 21 Christians were just beheaded. And I'm stressing about giving up sugar for Lent.
• ISIS Threat Puts Rome on High Alert: 'Never So Exposed'
• Islamic State Destroys More Church Crosses and Monastery Statues
• Italy fears ISIS invasion
• Iraq's Shiite militias rush to defend oil-rich Kirkuk from Islamic State
• Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'
• Libya killings: Who were the 21 Copts?
• ISIS atrocity in Libya demonstrates its growing reach in North Africa
• Pope at Santa Marta: Slain because they were Christian
• Rome on alert after ISIS threat
• Anti-terrorism soldiers to patrol Rome sites
• Meet the Christians in Syria who want to stay, despite the war
• The men who smuggle the loot that funds IS
• Iran cleric slams ISIL killing of Egypt Christians
• ISIS and the End Times

16 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-18-15): In Mosul jihadist 'patrols' ban Saint Valentine
• UPDATE (02-17-15): Dem says Obama's three-year time limit for Islamic State war is 'not appropriate'
• UPDATE (02-17-15): United against barbarity
• UPDATE (02-17-15): ISIS beheads, pope condemns, Obama golfs
• UPDATE (02-17-15): More Egyptians being kidnapped
• UPDATE (02-17-15): Hezbollah chief urges Middle East to unite against ISIL
• UPDATE (02-17-15): White House Statement On Christians Beheaded by ISIS Doesn't Mention that They're Christians
• UPDATE (02-17-15): Islamic State Claims Horrific Beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya is a Warning All 'People of the Cross'
• UPDATE (02-17-15): ISIS Is Itching for a New Crusade - What Should We Do?
• Martyrs of ISIS, Pray for Us and For Your Killers
• As Islamic State advances in Libya, bishop vows to stay
• Thousands mourn Egyptian Copt victims of Islamic State in disbelief
• Egypt urges international intervention in Libya
• What ISIS Really Wants
• Cairo launches second wave of airstrikes on ISIS in Libya, Egyptian state media says
• After beheading Coptic Christians, Islamists say they will 'conquer Rome' next
• Italy 'can't rule out' threat of jihadists from Libya 
• White House Statement on Beheading of Coptic Christians Has Two Major Omissions
• Pope on Murdered Egyptian Copts: 'Their Blood Gives Witness to Christ' 
• Pope Francis: The blood of murdered Copts a 'witness that cries out'
• Italians return after ISIS Libya threat
• Egypt and Libya launch air strikes against ISIS after militants post beheadings video
• Egypt 'bombs IS in Libya' after beheadings video
• Sisi warns of response after Islamic State kills 21 Egyptians in Libya

15 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-16-15): Italy Repatriates Staff From Libya, Pushes for U.N. Mission
• UPDATE (02-16-15): ISIS Beheads 21 Christians, Promises to 'Conquer Rome, By Allah's Permission'
• UPDATE (02-16-15): ISIS beheads 21 Copts for 'carrying the illusion of the cross' [pics]
• UPDATE (02-16-15): Video shows beheading of Copts at IS hands; Egypt declares week of mourning
• UPDATE (02-16-15): Beheading of Coptic Christians in Libya Shows ISIS Branching Out
• UPDATE (02-16-15): White House: Islamic State's Barbarity 'Knows No Bounds'
• UPDATE (02-16-15): Egypt vows to 'avenge criminal killings' after ISIS posts mass beheadings video
• UPDATE (02-16-15): Iraq: Militias Escalate Abuses, Possibly War Crimes
• UPDATE (02-16-15): ISIS May Be Gone, But Life Has Yet to Return to Normal In Northern Iraq City of Snuny
• UPDATE (02-16-15): Report: ISIS chief Baghdadi's uncle arrested in Iraq
• UPDATE (02-16-15): Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State
• What you bring when you run for your life: Displaced Iraqis pose with the one item they couldn't leave behind
• Why Are We At War With The Islamic State?

14 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-16-15): ISIS executes two 'spies' and crucifies another as armed insurgents and young boys watch
• UPDATE (02-16-15): Libyan parliament confirms death of 21 Coptic Egyptians
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Christians on the Path of Golgotha
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Egypt's Catholic bishops express solidarity for Copts slaughtered by IS
• UPDATE (02-15-15): ISIS chops off women's hands 'for using mobile phones' in northern Iraqi city of Mosul
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Key Iraqi town near U.S. training base falls to jihadists
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Paraded in cages 'to be burned alive' like Jordanian Pilot: ISIS releases video claiming to show 17 Kurkish fighters in humiliating procession through Iraqi city
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Islamic State Sprouting Limbs Beyond Its Base
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Islamic State Generating 'Militant Affiliates' Beyond Iraq and Syria, U.S. Intelligence Officials Say

13 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-15-15): Life under ISIS in Raqqa: The city where smoking a cigaratte could see you publicly flogged, imprisoned, and even decapitated
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Islamic State's Official Magazine Announces Execution of 21 Copts Kidnapped in Libya
• UPDATE (02-15-15): Terrorists close in on key base in Iraq
• UPDATE (02-14-15): Syria: 'The Christians want to stay' - local Church struggles to find a way
• More ISIS horror, 21 Christians slaughtered in Libya
• Iraq repels Islamic State attack on base housing US troops
• UN Security Council targets Islamic State financing
• Islamic State militants attack Iraqi town near US base
• Kobane: Assessing the devastation

12 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-13-15): Mideast Christians & ISIS: A panel discussion at St. John's Law School 
  
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Enough talk about talking - Iraqi priest calls for action on ISIS
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Islamic State advances near Iraq base where U.S. advisers are stationed
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Al-Azhar refuses to consider Islamic State an apostate

11 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-13-15): 'Powerful' military action needed to fight Islamic State, says prelate
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Syria, more than 20 thousand foreign fighters have joined the jihad
• UPDATE (02-13-15): US intel: IS militants drawing stead stream of recruits
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Kayla Mueller's faith: What was God's role in life of American killed while being held by Islamic State?
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Obama Seeking Congressional to Expand Fight Against Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-13-15): A caution: beware misleading reports from Islamic State territory
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Text of Obama's Letter to Lawmakers Accompanying War Request
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Islamic State will lose, says Obama
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Report: Hostage Kayla Mueller was given to ISIS fighter as a bride
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Islamic State territory now 'size of Belgium'
• UPDATE (02-13-15): Bosnian immigrants plead not guilty in terror financing case

10 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-11-15): Qatar published fatwa in 2006 permitting burning people - removes it after IS burns pilot
• Iraq archbishop calls for British boots on the ground to fight ISIS
• UAE resumes airstrikes
• Kurds & Volunteers Take Kabane From ISIS; Media Silent?
• Military action needed in Iraq to help Christians, Archbishop says

9 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-11-15): Islamic State disfigures 15 women with acid
• UPDATE (02-10-12): FSA 'split' as Islamic State moves into Homs
• UPDATE (02-10-15): The Media May Ignore Them, But They're Fighting ISIS and WINNING
• UPDATE (02-10-15): Synod of Chaldean Bishops: join forces to liberate the lands occupied by jihadists
• Afghanistan strike 'kills IS commander Abdul Rauf'
• Life is harsh under the Islamic State, but what's the alternative?
• Afghanistan drone strike 'targets IS-linked militant'
• Jordan pounds IS positions as air war begins to bite

8 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-09-15): Terror suspects arrested every day in UK as police call for extra funding to cope with ISIL threat
• UPDATE (02-09-15): Islamic State Arrests Book Store Owner for Selling Christian Books
• UPDATE (02-09-15): East Jerusalem Mother of 2 Abandons Children to Take Up Jihad with ISIS
• UPDATE (02-09-15): Kerry says US 'on the road' to defeating ISIS, amid claims terror group is spreading
• UPDATE (02-09-15): Jordan airstrikes 'destroy' ISIS hideouts
• UPDATE (02-09-15): 'Revenge for Muath': Jordan Unleashes 56 Airstrikes Against Islamic State - And Promises More
• UPDATE (02-09-15): ISIS has reached new depths of depravity. But is there a brutal logic behind it?
• UPDATE (02-09-15): Does the U.S. Need 'Boots on the Ground' to Fight the Islamic State? One Republican Is Willing to Take that Step

7 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-10-15): Karak, Jordan: Where one pilot is mourned and another is praised for joining ISIL
• UPDATE (02-09-15): Archbishop of Mosul: reports of destruction of Church of the Immaculate Virgin untrue
• UPDATE (02-08-15): Prince Charles Expresses Fear for Christians in Middle East: 'A Danger' That There Will Be 'Very, Very Few Left'
• UPDATE (02-08-15): Indictment: Bosnian immigrants plotted over Facebook
• UPDATE (02-08-15): The quiet French town losing its men to Al-Qaeda and IS in Syria
• Crucifixion, beheading, stoning and now burning alive? What does this mean?

6 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-10-15): Aleppo bishop says Syrian Christians betrayed by the West
• UPDATE (02-10-15): Rome Melkite Greek basilica hosts photo show on war
• UPDATE (02-07-15): Islamic State fatwa points to Muhammad to justify burning pilot
• UPDATE (02-07-15): 6 people charged in U.S. with supporting ISIS
• UPDATE (02-07-15): We Want to Crush ISIS, but Why the Silence About Their Counterparts Boko Haram in Nigeria?
• UPDATE (02-07-15): ISIL's barbarism is modern, not medieval

5 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-08-15): Watch: ISIS supporters cheer as pilot's execution shown on big screen in public square
• UPDATE (02-07-15): ISIS Blows Up Church of Immaculate Virgin in Mosul
• How much of a state is the Islamic State?
• Female jihadist guide dispels myth of life under Islamic State
• Jordan jets 'strike Islamic State' after pilot's death
• No, Jordan's King Abdullah is not personally flying planes against ISIS
• Chaldean Patriarchate: Reports of priest murdered in Mosul unfounded
• How strong is Islamic State in Libya?

4 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-07-15): '4,000-Strong' Christian Militia Formed to Fight ISIS in Northern Iraq
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Islamic State selling, crucifying, burying children alive in Iraq - UN
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Reports: Jordanian King Personally Flying Sorties Against ISIS
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Al-Azhar Sheizkh: Killers of pilot should be 'crucified or ... have their limbs amputated'
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Muslim clerics denounce burning alive of Jordanian pilot as un-Islamic
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Jordan's Christian churches condemn pilot's murder, offer prayers
• UPDATE (02-05-15): FBI official: ISIS is recruiting U.S. teens
• UPDATE (02-05-15): How Iraq Subsidizes the Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Jordan's King Abdullah vows 'severe response' to ISIS
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Syrian Fighters Liberate Town from ISIS, Re-establish Cross onto Church
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Middle East Patriarch: Fight the Islamic State
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Outrage in Mideast Over ISIS Killing of Jordanian Pilot
• UPDATE (02-05-15): Muslim outrage grows against Islamic State but questions linger over next steps in fight

3 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-05-15): United Arab Emirates, Key U.S. Ally in ISIS Effort, Disengaged in December
• UPDATE (02-04-15): Jordan Executes Two Prisoners After Islamic State Releases Video Showing Pilot Being Burned Alive
• UPDATE (02-04-15): Fatwa: How Islamic State Justifies Burning Pilot Alive
• Report: ISIS stones gay man to death after throwing him off high-rise building
• Jordan pilot hostage Moaz al-Kasabeh 'burned alive'

2 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-03-15): ISIS Opens Market in Mosul for Stolen Assyrian Property

1 February 2015

• UPDATE (02-03-15): Obama: U.S. Trying to Rescue American Women from Islamic State
• Memory eternal: Human-rights activist and, yes, Christian journalist Kenji Goto is gone
• Japan outraged at IS 'beheading' of hostage Kenji Goto
• Islamic State says it has beheaded second Japanese hostage Goto