Islamic State Ongoing Updates - June 2017

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29 June 2017

• UPDATE (07-06-17): Feds confirm ISIS investigations underway in NC
• UPDATE (06-30-17): It's Too Soon To Declare Victory Over ISIS. Iraq Did It Anyway.
• IS 'caliphate' crumbles as Iraq tightens noose on Mosul
• 'The fall of the mythical state': Iraqi tv announces forces have recaptured the iconic Mosul mosque where ISIS leader al-Baghdadi declared the beginning of the group's caliphate

28 June 2017

• Terror suspect in Birmingham and facing extradition to Spain is imam father-of-eight who preached to Bataclan bomber before Paris attack
• Police say 70% of Mosul's Old City recaptured from Islamic State 

27 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-28-17): In rural NC, teen planned to unveil an 'Islamic State of North America'
• UPDATE (06-28-17): Terrorists desecrate Eucharist, destroy Catholic chapel in the Philippines

26 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-28-17): ISIS commanders are killed when one of the group's suicide bombers blows himself up at a meeting, following the group's collapse in Mosul
• UPDATE (06-28-17): Brainwashed 'cubs of the caliphate' shoot prisoners in the back of the head in sickening new ISIS execution video
• UPDATE (06-28-17): Two ISIS knifeman screaming 'Allahu Akbar' stab a policemen to death hours before Eid prayers to mark the end of Ramadan in Indonesia
• UPDATE (06-28-17): Iraq forces repel IS counter-attack
• UPDATE (06-28-17): Bloodied and Broken: Rising toll of Philippine's with ISIS
• UPDATE (06-28-17): Mosul battle to end in days as troops advance in Old City: Iraqi general
• UPDATE (06-28-17): ISIS Linked Hackers Target Ohio Government Sites
• UPDATE (06-28-17): ISIS fighters are given 'passports to paradise' in a desperate bid to convince them they will be rewarded with virgins in the afterlife

23 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-28-17): Islamic State Wages War on the Middle East's Cultural Heritage

22 June 2017

• Home Health Care Aide Accused to Trying to Aid Terror Group
• The Kremlin claims there is a 'high degree of certainty' that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a Russian air strike

21 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-22-17): 'Highly radicalized' ISIS terror suspect is arrested in Madrid just days before two million arrive in the city for Gay Pride festival
• UPDATE (06-22-17): ISIS blows up historic Mosul mosque where it declared 'caliphate'
  
• UPDATE (06-22-17): The collapse of ISIS begins: Terror group blows up the famous al-Nuri mosque in Mosul where leader al-Baghdadi declared so-called caliphate

20 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-28-17): 'Infidels should have throats cut': Italy arrests Iraqi refugee over ISIS support
• UPDATE (06-28-17): US-led coalition says Syria strike killed top IS preacher
• UPDATE (06-28-17): Islamist militants who stormed school in the Philippines holding students captive and using civilians as human shields withdraw after fierce gun fight
• UPDATE (06-22-17): Chaldean prelate challenges Christian families to return to area liberated from Islamic State

19 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-28-17): Why Is the U.S. Killing So Many Civilians in Syria and Iraq?
• UPDATE (06-28-17): ISIS supporters use Finsbury Park terror carnage to call for more attacks on West
• UPDATE (06-22-17): Radicalized in Mideast, Maute brothers razed their Christian school
• UPDATE (06-22-17): Google Has Announced a Plan to to Fight ISIS with Targeted Ads

18 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-28-17): Google plots blitz on IS propaganda: Internet giant says they'll root out vile hate speech...but what took them so long?

16 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-22-17): ISIS condemned by 300 Austrian Muslim imams who sign declaration against 'extremism, violence and terror'
• UPDATE (06-22-17): Swedish Islamophobia Expert Who Joined ISIS Now Calling for Attacks in Sweden
• Islamic State leader Baghdadi 'may have been killed by Russia'
• Over 100,000 civilians behind ISIS lines in Mosul as offensive enters ninth month

15 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-22-17): Iraqi Christians should not be deported to become victims of ISIS
• ISIS is planning new wave of attacks on Europe with explosives-laden drones and female jihadis, EU law enforcement agency warns
• ISIS 'captures Osama bin Laden's Tora Bora cave hideout' from the Taliban after their previous Afghan hideout was destroyed by Trump's Mother of All Bombs

14 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-15-17): ISIS drones are attacking U.S. troops and disrupting airstrikes in Raqqa, officials say
• UPDATE (06-15-17): ISIS used Mosul church to abuse Yazidi girls, women, Iraqi Army officer says

12 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-15-17): Islamic State calls for attacks in West Russia, Middle East, Asia during Ramadan
• UPDATE (06-15-17): Booby-traps ... but no Baghdadi: the men cleaning up after ISIS in northern Iraq

11 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-15-17): Is the leader of ISIS dead? Syrian State tv 'claims Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an airstrike' ... but the terrorist leader has survived despite claims of his demise

9 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-15-17): Lebanon's security forces arrest Islamic State-linked cell: statement
• UPDATE (06-15-17): Suicide bomber kills at least 31 in crowded Iraqi market
• UPDATE (06-15-17): ISIS 'kills Chinese couple abducted while teaching in Pakistan' as the terror group wages war on Beijing

8 June 2017

• ISIS-supporting news agency tells Muslims to avoid 'gathering places of the Crusaders' as fanatics plan to 'explode, run over people and cut their necks at any time'

7 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-15-17): Terror on our doorstep: Indonesian fanatics who 'plotter a terror attack in Singapore and protected ISIS militants' jailed fueling fears the group are expanding through south-east Asia
• ISIS strike in Iran: 'Female suicide bomber' blows herself up at Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum and gunmen take hostages at parliament

6 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-06-17): IS Propaganda Increasingly Targeting Iran And Its Sunnis

5 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-07-17): ISIS thugs in the Philippines film sacrilegious rampage as they smash statues, tear up pictures of the Pope then torch a Catholic church in Marawi
• UPDATE (06-07-17): Video: ISIS destroys Catholic Church in Philippines

4 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-07-17): U.S.-backed Syrian forces seize dam west of Raqqa from Islamic State - SDF
• UPDATE (06-07-17): Iraq Shi'ite paramilitaries take Baaj town west of Mosul from Islamic State: army
• UPDATE (06-07-17): ISIS surrenders Iraqi hideout of leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

3 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-07-17): IS attacks Syrian forces, captures their locations in Deir Ezzor 
• UPDATE (06-07-17): Manchester Bomber Met With ISIS Unit in Libya, Officials Say
• UPDATE (06-07-17): Terrifying moment three Jihadis were shot dead after killing seven and hurting 48: Gang yell 'Tell this for Allah' after mowing down crowd on London Bridge then going on stabbing frenzy

2 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-03-17): Bishop describes growing ISIS presence in Somalia
• UPDATE (06-03-17): ISIS reveal identity of their 'lone wolf' gunman in Manila who killed 36 after police insisted he was just a 'white gambler' with a vendetta against casino 

1 June 2017

• UPDATE (06-03-17): ISIS claims responsibility for Manila resort attack 

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - August 2016

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31 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): ISIS names Pope 'enemy number one' for being a non-believer
• UPDATE (09-04-16): Vicars told 'don't wear dog collars in public' over fears jihadists are planning attacks
• UPDATE (09-04-16): ISIS bans football referees in Syria because they enforce 'laws of FIFA not of Sharia

30 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): 2 Bangladeshi men jailed for financing terrorism
• UPDATE (09-03-16): The ISIS Attack Dog Reported Dead
• UPDATE (09-03-16): AP shows that ISIS recruits know little about Islam; but what about top ISIS leaders?
• UPDATE (09-03-16): ISIS abducts 40 civilians from Hawija
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Leaked ISIS Documents Show Internal Chaos

29 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): 
• UPDATE (09-04-16): Inside the Head of an ISIS True Believer
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Yemen suicide attack claims by IS 'kills dozens' in Aden 

28 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): German army wants security checks for recruits after admitting more than 60 ISIL suspects in its ranks
• UPDATE (09-03-16): ISIS bomber attacks Catholic priest with ax during Sunday Mass
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Philippines IS-linked Maute group inmates freed in 'raid'
• UPDATE (09-03-16): Life on the frontline fighting Islamic State 

27 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-03-16): ISIS video shows boys executing prisoners

25 August 2016

• UPDATE (09-04-16): Trial set for suspected Pensacola ISIL supporter

24 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-25-16): Mississippi man who tried to join ISIS with fiancee gets 8 years in prison
• UPDATE (08-25-16): Kansas man faces sentencing for role in foiled bomb plot
• Qayyarah fully liberated from ISIS control
• Raped and tortured by IS, Yazidi women recover in Germany 

21 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-22-16): 2 Singaporeans planning to join Islamic State given detention orders
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Erdogan: Suicide Bomber in Turkish Wedding Attack Was 12-14 Years Old
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Fake passports for ISIL terrorists 'found in Greek refugee camps'
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Feds in terror case want max term for ex-Illinois guardsman
• UPDATE (08-22-16): Iraq hangs 36 for Camp Speicher massacre

19 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-22-16): Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Russian traffic police

16 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-24-16): Alqosh, despite the Islamic State, the Church celebrates the first communion of one hundred children
• UPDATE (08-17-16): Documents: Freeport man died fighting for Islamic State in Lebanon
• Radical Islamist Preacher Anjem Choudary Found Guilty of Supporting ISIS 

14 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-15-16): Saudis Say Suspect in Police Killing Linked to Islamic State
• UPDATE (08-15-16): Italy on High Alert for Suspected ISIS Cell in Milan 

13 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-15-16): Victories against IS leave Iraq's Sunni heartland shattered
• UPDATE (08-15-16): Revealed: Gory pictures of blisters suffered by Kurdish fighters are the first evidence that ISIS jihadis are now deploying mustard gas in Iraq
• UPDATE (08-15-16): ISIS Orders Its Franchises to Kill Christians 

11 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-16-15): Mississippi ex-cheerleader sentenced to 12 years for plot to join Islamic State
• UPDATE (08-15-16): Kurds say Islamic State oil overseer killed in joint ops with U.S.
• UPDATE (08-12-16): ISIS release sick video of 'gay man' being thrown off building for 'corrupting people's minds'
• UPDATE (08-12-16): House probe: Central Command skewed intel on ISIS fight

10 August 2016

• Christians say defeating ISIS won't make Iraq safe for them
• US: 45,000 Islamic State fighters taken off battlefields
• Libyans 'oust' so-called IS from Sirte headquarters
• Islamic State found a wealth of ancient artifcts in Tal Ajaja. They destroyed them

9 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): 'Explosive belt for Miss Universe': ISIS affiliate calls for attack beauty pageant in Philippines

8 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-09-16): ISIS claim responsibility for Pakistan suicide bomb killing at least 70 people - mainly solicitors - as footage emerges of the moment it detonated 

7 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Militants linked to ISIS claim they confiscated US weapons in Afghanistan
• UPDATE (08-10-16): Muslim woman devotes her life to helping Christians displaced by ISIS
• UPDATE (08-08-16): Taliban, Islamic State Forge Alliance of Convenience in Eastern Afghanistan 

6 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): 'ISIS' Promises Attack on Rio Olympic Games 2016 
• UPDATE (08-09-16): Catholic nuns under siege in Syria issue plea for help 

5 August 2016

• UN cites reports of up to 3,000 Iraqis captured by IS

3 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Terrorism 'heat map' shows ISIS network spreading across the world
• UPDATE (08-10-16): White House Map Shows Islamic State Still Expanding, Despite Public Claims

2 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Trini ISIS sniper: All Christians must die  

1 August 2016

• UPDATE (08-10-16): Ohio Man, ISIS Sympathizer Pleads Guilty to Charges He Planned U.S. Capitol Attack
• UPDATE (08-10-16): 9 Trinidadians nabbed on their way to Syria