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

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