Islamic State Ongoing Updates - August 2019

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30 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): Air Force Veteran Convicted for Trying to Join ISIS to be Resentenced
• UPDATE (08-31-19): Belgian ISIS butcher dubbed 'the executioner of Raqqa' who beheaded more than 100 people in terror stronghold while claiming benefits in Britain is captured in Syria

28 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): ISIS is still a global threat with a warchest of $300 million despite losing its territory in Iraq and Syria, UN counterterrorism official warns

27 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): Martyrdom causes of 5 Iraqis to be presented to Vatican in early September
• UPDATE (08-31-19): Mosul - from 15,000 Christians to 40

18 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): Islamic State claims bombing at Kabul wedding that killed 63

15 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): The Islamic State is building Caliphate 2.0 in a Sryian camp

8 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-31-19): Pentagon report blames Trump for the return of ISIS in Syria and Iraq

6 August 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): Iraqi Archbishop reflects on Christian community five years after ISIS takeover

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - July 2019

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25 July 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): ISIS kidnaps female Christian aid worker along with her five colleagues in Nigeria and releases video of them pleading for their lives

21 July 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): Iraqi Archbishop: 'The Faith Is Alive' Despite ISIS' Devastation

16 July 2019

• UPDATE (07-23-19): When Islamic State came, Iraqi monks had just finished hiding manuscripts

11 July 2019

• UPDATE (08-23-19): IS claims revenge attacks for women imprisoned in Syria

10 July 2019

• Iraq: Two years after liberation of Mosul, many Christians still fear to return

7 July 2019

• UPDATE (07-10-19): ISIS Terrorist Involved in Paris Attacks That Killed Over 130 Awarded Compensation

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - June 2019

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28 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-29-19): The Islamic State's Leadership Today

27 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-29-19): ISIS supporters threaten to blow up Big Ben and attack New York in chilling new series of propaganda posters

26 June 2019

• Islamic State group: Nicaragua arrests four suspected members

25 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-26-19): Saudi Arabia announces capture of an ISIS leader in Yemen in U.S.-backed raid

24 June 2019

• Three months on, landless IS still a threat in Syria

22 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-24-19): ISIL's 45,000 abandoned children - a generation ripe for radicalisation

20 June 2019

• Islamic State claims attacks on American, French forces in the Sahel

19 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): FBI: Syrian Islamic State sympathizer in Pittsburgh planned to bomb north side church
• UPDATE (06-20-19): Islamic State's Sinai province renews allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

18 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-29-19): Illinois Woman Sentenced for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Terrorists

11 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): Despite Trump's Guantanamo Threats, Americans Who Joined ISIS Are Quietly Returning Home

6 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): ISIS plotted to send westerners to US through Mexico border: report
• UPDATE (06-20-19): He lost his family home to ISIS. Now he's returning as Archbishop of Mosul

4 June 2019

• UPDATE (06-20-19): Islamic State claims first attack in Mozambique

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