Ongoing Islamic State Updates - July 2018

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31 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): IS video shows 'Tajikistan foreign cyclist killers' pledging allegiance

30 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): ISIS are holding more than 30 women and children hostage after seizing them during deadly attack on Druze ethnic minority in Syria

25 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): 'ISIS' suicide bomber kills at least 30, including children, at a polling station in Pakistan - as Imran Khan vies for power in country's 'dirtiest election'

23 July 2018

• UPDATE (08-11-18): From Daesh to 'Diaspora': Tracing the Women and Minors of the Islamic State

20 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-21-18): ISIS supporter pleads guilty in plot to kill 10,000 in [San Francisco] Bay area (Report)

19 July

• UPDATE (08-11-18): Islamic State. Diminished, but still dangerous
• UPDATE (08-11-18): Suspected ISIS fighter from Dearborn captured on Syrian battlefield
• UPDATE (07-21-18): American Accused of Being ISIS Fighter in Syria Faces Prosecution in U.S.

18 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-19-19): What did documents, records left behind by ISIS in Raqqa reveal?
• UPDATE (07-19-18): As ISIS Fighters Fill Prisons in Syria, Their Home Nations Look Away
• UPDATE (07-19-18): U.S. Weighs Destinations for Islamic State Detainees in Syria: Some fighters have been returned to countries of origin, others could wind up at Guantanamo Bay

17 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-18-18): The Islamic State is making a comback in Iraq just months after Baghdad declared victory

16 July 2018

• Investigation reveals elaborate technology terror web

13 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-16-18): Man who urged Prince George attack given life sentence

11 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-12-18): Raqqa Was the Capital of ISIS. Can It Ever Be Home Again?

9 July 2018

• UPDATE (07-11-18): ISIS Remnants Fight On, Despite U.S. Campaign
• UPDATE (07-09-18): ISIS 'capital' captured in Afghanistan, over 160 fighters killed by US, Afghan troops

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - April 2018

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3 April 2018

• UPDATE (04-16-18): Islamic State claims it killed four Catholics in southern Pakistan

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - November 2016

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30 November 2016

• ISIS terrorists planned to kill kindergarten children with poisoned ice cream before detonating a bomb in a school car park, German trial hears

29 November 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): 20-year-old says he planned ISIS terror attacks in Virginia, North Carolina

28 November 2016

• ISIS urge 'lone wolf' attackers to 'open the door to jihad' in a new video showing how to make a bomd and decapitate with horrific 'deomonstration' on a real victim
• ISIS's second-in-command hid in Syria for months. The day he stepped out, the U.S. was waiting

27 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-28-16): ISIS Tortures Then Crucifies Christian Man, Tells Him: 'If You Love Jesus, You Will Die Like Him'
• Susan Rice: Coalition forces have seized 55 percent of ISIS territory in Iraq
• Islamic State gone, Mosul district residents adjust to new life
• ISIS fighters target Israel for the first time and are obliterated by warplanes after firing rockets at soldiers
• After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze
• Philippine troops fire artillery at Islamic militants in south

26 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-27-16): ISIS thugs slice crucified victim's throat open in chilling 'how to execute a disbeliever' instruction video

25 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-26-16): Australian Islamic State recruiter, believed killed in Iraq in April, 'under arrest' - Media
• UPDATE (11-26-16): In retaken areas of Mosul, Islamic State still inflicts pain
• UPDATE (11-26-16): Iraq's Najaf cemetery swells as fight against IS escalates

24 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-26-16): ISIS planned to attack Disneyland Paris, the Champs-Elysees Christmas market, a metro station, cafes and a police HQ next week, cops reveal
• UPDATE (11-26-16): Shia pilgrims among 77 people killed in IS attack in Iraq
• UPDATE (11-26-16): One by One, ISIS Social Media Experts Are Killed as Result of F.B.I. Program

23 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-26-16): ISIS Torches Sacred Texts and Smashes Virgin Mary Sculptures in Iraq Monastery
• UPDATE (11-25-16): Ohio college student who plotted to kill military employee, police officers for ISIS is sentenced to twenty years in prison

22 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-26-16): Christian heritage found ransacked in monastery retaken from Islamic State
• Private hospital manager and his IT consultant wife are jailed for sending £219 to their nephew ISIS fighter who predicted the Charlie Hebdo attack on Twitter
• ISIS release sickening video game-style first person shooter footage of Yemeni Colonel's assassination
• US issues Europe travel alert after France foils ISIS-linked plot 

21 November 2016

• UPDATE (12-11-16): Iraqi Christians Tell of How They Were Forced to Spit on Crucifix and Convert to Islam Under ISIS Rule
• UPDATE (11-22-16): NY Man Arrested for Alleged Times Square Terror Plot

19 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-20-16): ISIS' Egypt branch executes 100-year-old cleric
• UPDATE (11-20-16): Assyrian Christian teen counters ISIS by recreating destroyed artifacts

18 November 2016

• Archbishop: Christians who fled ISIS likely to return to villages next summer

17 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-18-16): On the Nineveh Plane [sic], German ISIS fighters left their mark

16 November 2016

• Mosul shelling: ISIS attacks liberated area of Mosul, Iraq
• Iraqi Christians discuss life under ISIS 

15 November 2016

• German anti-terror police out dawn raids on more than 200 properties belonging to ISIS-supporting 'True Religion' group that 'recruits jihadists' 

14 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-17-16): Jihadists say Trump victory a rallying call for new recruits
• UPDATE (11-16-16): First 3 Twin Cities men sentenced for conspiring to join Islamic State
• Six IS suicide bombers in deadly attack south of Baghdad
• Hand grenade drone adds to arsenal around Mosul
• Tunisian ISIS recruiter for Italy arrested in Sudan 

13 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-14-16): Islamic State group flourishes and recruits in Pakistan
• UPDATE (11-14-16): Nimrud: Iraqi forces 'retake ancient city from ISIS' 

12 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-14-16): ISIS massacre at the Muslim saint's shrine: Bomb blast hits early morning worshippers killing at least 52 and injuring over 100
• UPDATE (11-14-16): ISIS sends female supporters to serve as frontline suicide bombers

11 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-17-16): Plot to bomb Berlin's Brandenburg Gate is foiled after Syrian teen ISIS supporter posing as an asylum seeker is arrested
• UPDATE (11-15-16): Cowering in the kitchen: ISIS suspects are rounded up in Mosul amid accusations Iraqi forces have meted out revenge executions for the atrocities carried out by jihadists
• UPDATE (11-14-16): Boxer shorts banned! After ISIS outlawed shaving, tight jeans and t-shirts, posters are uncovered which even warn of punishment if men are caught wearing Western underwear 

10 November 2016

• 'Crashing waves' of jihadists fray soldiers' nerves in Mosul battle

8 November 2016

• German police detain five 'IS recruiters'
• Feds say Ohio man tried to join Islamic State to wage jihad
• Islamic State abducts more than 200 near Mosul, retreats with thousands: U.N.

7 November 2016

• Slaughtered at school: ISIS beheads 100 civilians at a college on the outskirts of Mosul before fleeing Iraqi troops

6 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-7-16): ISIS calls on supportive to 'slaughter' American Presidential election voters on Tuesday
• Kosovo says seven detained Islamic State suspects planned attacks in the Balkans and were getting instructions from militants in Syria

5 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-6-16): Five ISIS leaders steal millions of dollars from the terror group's treasury in Iraq and flee as extremists send hit squad to hunt them down

4 November 2016

• Escape from the Caliphate:R escuing and ransoming Christian hostages in Iraq
• Iraq burns: Retreating ISIS create toxic smoke cloud the size of London by torching oil wells as Iraqi forces seize six districts and hoist flag above Mosul for first time in two years 

3 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-4-16): Trump has unwittingly become an asset for ISIS
• UPDATE (11-4-16): ISIS blows up government offices in Anbar ahead of liberation campaign
• UPDATE (11-4-16): As Islamic State Crumbles, the Church Comes to Civilians' Rescue
• Mosul under Islamic State: hardship, terror and swift 'justice'

2 November 2016

• UPDATE (11-4-16): 1,131 Christians Identified By Name Killed By ISIS, Says Report
• UPDATE (11-3-16): Documents show Islamic State obsessions: beards and concubines
• UPDATE (11-3-16): Imam arrested for 'ordering Muslims to be killed for not praying'
• UPDATE (11-3-16): ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi calls on suicide bombers to 'destroy the cities of the unbelievers' in the West and orders no surrenders as Iraqi forces close in on his Mosul hideout