Islamic State Ongoing Updates - March 2020

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25 March 2020

• UPDATE (04-02-20): A Year Since Baghuz, the Islamic State is Neither Defeated Nor Resurging (Yet)

15 March 2020

• UPDATE (03-24-20): Coronavirus: ISIS tells followers not to travel to Europe for attacks because of outbreak

4 March 2020

• UPDATE (03-24-20): Missouri Man Sentenced to 19 Years for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - December 2016

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31 December 2016

• UPDATE (01-01-17): IS claims Baghdad blasts that killed at least 28
• UPDATE (01-01-17): Inside the economic war against the Islamic State

30 December 2016

• UPDATE (01-01-17): I'm being forgotten because I'm not European, says Indian priest kidnapped by ISIS
• UPDATE (01-01-17): 2017 Warning: ISIS call on 'Western sons' to launch brutal attacks on New Year's revellers
• UPDATE (01-01-17): Spanish ISIS Widows Arrested While Trying to Return to Europe
• The tragedy of the sex slaves of the Islamic State
• Iraqi forces face Islamic State car bombs, fierce resistance in south Mosul

29 December 2016

• UPDATE (01-01-17): Disguised as refugees and able to cross borders without being identified: ISIS general who blew up a hostage with a rocket and decapitated another prisoner is 'back in Europe with 400 soldiers' after fleeing Syria

27 December 2016

• The American Leader in the Islamic State

26 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Islamic State arrests reveal jihadi threat threat near seat of U.S. government

25 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Police uncover ISIS plot to set off phone bomb on UK streets in the run up to Christmas after two people appear in court charged with terror offense 

24 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Christmas reborn in Iraqi town freed from ISIS
• Christmas Terror: Vatican braces for growing ISIS threat in Midnight Mass warning

23 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-28-16): Feds warn of ISIS threats to churches, holiday events
• For Liberated Iraqi Christians, Still a Bleak Christmas
• Anis Amri, Suspect in Berlin Truck Attack, Is Shot Dead Near Milan

22 December 2016

• Australian police say they thwarted planned Christmas bombings
• Turkey bans Twitter, Facebook and YouTube after ISIS savages upload a video of themselves burning two soldiers alive in a sick execution
• Berlin massacre suspect offered himself as a suicide bomber in months before Christmas market attack as chilling footage emerges of him patrolling the city

21 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-22-16): IS 'indiscriminately' attacking civilians in Mosul: HRW
• UPDATE (12-22-16): Berlin Truck Attacker Was No Lone Wolf, German Authorities Say

20 December 2016

• ISIS: We Did Berlin Truck Attack

19 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-21-16): Italian Muslim convert found guilty of helping Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-20-16): Syrian army vehicles seized by Islamic State seen in Anbar

17 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): U.S. offers $25 million reward for information on Islamic State leader

16 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): ISIS shows no sign of weakening as Mosul battle enters third month
• UPDATE (12-20-16): 'Have mercy on ISIS': The shocking prayer of a young Iraqi

15 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-16-16): Terror-stricken France deploys thousands more troops to streets amid Christmas threat

13 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): ISIS claims responsibility for Egypt church bombing that killed 25

10 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Iraq sends reinforcements to eastern Mosul after ISIS attack
• UPDATE (12-11-16): House to House: The painstaking process of sweeping ISIS from Mosul
• UPDATE (12-11-16): US to send troops to help seize Raqqa from IS
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Spotlight turns to US forces' role as IS fight continues
• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS Retakes UNESCO Heritage Palmyra - So Where Is Putin's Army Now?

9 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Islamic State treatens Egypt Sufis after claiming cleric murdershttp://zeenews.india.com/news/world/islamic-state-threatens-egypt-sufis-after-claiming-cleric-murders_1957103.html
• UPDATE (12-11-16): No home for the holidays: Assyrian Christians unable to return to villages destroyed by ISIS
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Rotterdam terrorist arrested with loaded AK-47 and Islamic State flag
• U.S.-led warplanes destroy fleet of Islamic State oil tankers in Syria

8 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-20-16): ISIS in the Caribbean: Trinidad has the highest rate of Islamic State recruitment in the Western hemisphere. How did this happen?
• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS may be on the run, but Iraqi Christians 'are still afraid'
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Islamic State Mag Praises Ohio State Jihadi, Doubles Down on Knife Attacks
• UPDATE (12-09-16): ISIS Remains Threat in Libya Despite Defeat in Surt, U.S. Officials Say

7 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Bishop helped broker ransom of 226 hostages from ISIS
• UPDATE (12-11-16): 'Thousands of pounds in British benefits used to fund ISIS terror cells' expert claims
• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS rise surprised Obama, US intelligence
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Italy Departs Moroccan Jihadist Planning Bomb Attack in Vatican
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Up to 1,750 ISIS jihadists have returned to Europe with orders to carry out attacks, EU report warns

6 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Syrian migrant, 16 who had links to ISIS charged with plotting bomb attack in Cologne

5 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): ISIS declares Trump inauguration day 'Bloody Friday'
  
• UPDATE (12-11-16): Creve Coeur worker told coworkers he was in ISIS, could blow them with one call, authorities say
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Civilians fleeing rebel-held east Aleppo 'detained and conscripted' by Syrian forces
• ISIS thugs hurl prisoner off roof before a baying mob of fanatics pet his corpse with rocks for the 'crime' of being gay

4 December 2016

• Islamic State strikes back to slow Iraqi forces in Mosul

3 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-04-16): IS jihadist linked to French plot arrested in Morocco
• UPDATE (12-04-16): ISIS pounds Iraqi fighters near Mosul

2 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Holiday Warning: Hundreds of jihadi cells found in tourist hotspot after ISIS massacre

1 December 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Iraqi military using militia groups to secure territory recaptured from Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-09-16): Terrorist threats may suspend Masses in Philippines capital

A news round up - 12 September 2012

More news you may have missed:

• Over the last forty years, the number of Baptists in the United States of America has decreased by 25%.

• Administrators at Ventura High School in California have banned an offensive chicken sandwich. I knew these are bizarre days in which we live, but I didn't realize they were this bizarre yet.

• While we're on the topic of bizarre school news, a teacher in a school in Washington, D.C. asked 6th grade students to compare George W. Bush and Adolf Hitler.

• At least 5,186 people have been in killed in the Central African Republic since December as Islamic militants continue to gain strength in the CAR.

• Lawmakers in Missouri overrode a gubernatorial veto yesterday to pass into law legislation mandating a 72-hour waiting period for any woman seeking an abortion in the Show Me State (without a clause for rape or incest).

• Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized remains of a Spinosaurus, the largest carnivorous dinosaur even to swim the waters of the earth, in the Sahara Desert. As if it weren't obvious enough, this discovery - among others - shows that the oceans have changed increased and receded in various places for centuries, even millennia.

• Because it spans the globe, the Catholic Church faces various problems in various parts of the world that are often unknown in places where they aren't prevalent, like polygamy. This will be one of the many issues the upcoming two Synods on the family will have to discuss.

• Al-Qaeda  expanded last week into the Indian Subcontinent and from there it has already attacked Pakistan twice.