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 - November 2019

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24 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): Libya's civil war creates opening for ISIS return as counterterrorism effort falters

23 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): U.S. Central Command orders 500 military personnel to resume fight against ISIS in eastern Syria - a year after Trump shocked allies by withdrawing most of his troops from the country

18 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): Iraqi spy chief warns ISIS is rebuilding

13 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): 'Spectacular' ISIS attack on a Western city is 'expected' because of Turkey's Syria incursion and West's refusal to take back prisoners, Kurdish general warns

12 November 2019

• UPDATE (12-01-19): ISIS is targeting Syria's Christians. Vicar of Aleppo: We are under siege
• UPDATE (12-01-19): Germany detains three Islamic State suspects over attack plan
• UPDATE (12-01-19): What radicalized ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?
• UPDATE (12-01-19): Armenian Catholic priest killed in Syria; ISIS claims responsibility
• UPDATE (11-12-19): Dozens attend funeral of IS-slain priest in northeast Syria

4 November 2019

• UPDATE (11-07-19): Turkey captures slain ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's older sister amid hopes she will be an 'intelligence' goldmine after being found living in a trailer in Syria

3 November 2019

• UPDATE (11-07-19): Mali Says 54 Are Killed in Jihadist Attack on Army; ISIS Claims Responsibility
• UPDATE (11-07-19): Islamic State Turns to Teen-Friendly TikTok, Adorning Posts with Pink Hearts

1 November 2019

• UPDATE (11-07-19): 'We Know Exactly Who He Is!' Trump claims to know identity of new ISIS leader despite terror experts remaining stumped

Islamic State Ongoing Updates - September 2019

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30 September 2019

• UPDATE (10-01-19): Islamic State violence against Christians in Iraq, Syria, focus of hearing

26 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-27-19): Despite $380M in US aid for religious minorities persecuted by ISIS, 1 million from Nineveh Plains remain displaced

25 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-27-19): ISIS is 'preparing to free its loyal fighters' from huge prison camps in Syria and Iraq, report warns after Trump threatened to release fanatics on Europe's borders

21 September 2019

• UPDATE (10-16-19): Why isn't the media covering Turkish President Erdogan's ties to ISIS?

19 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-27-19): A US drone strike meant for ISIS killed 30 pine nut harvesters in Afghanistan
• American Airlines sabotage mechanic 'has possible IS links'

16 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-18-19): ISIS' on-the-run leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with £19m price on his dead will be caught says senior British army officer

• UPDATE (09-18-19): Islamic State Releases Purported Audio Message From Leader Baghdadi

4 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-09-19): ISIS, Weakened, Finds New Bombers: Cows Wearing Explosive Vests

2 September 2019

• UPDATE (09-09-19): 19-year-old arrested in connection with possible ISIS-inspired attack in Queens

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 - April 2019

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30 April 2019

• UPDATE (05-03-19): ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seen in new video for first time in five years
• UPDATE (05-03-19): Trump demands European countries take back astonishing total of 1,800 ISIS fighters captured in collapse of the caliphate

29 April 2019

• UPDATE (05-03-19): Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Alive. Now What?
• UPDATE (05-03-19): L.A. terror plot thwarted: Army vet planned 'mass casualties', FBI says 

27 April 2019

• UPDATE (05-06-19): What ISIS Did to My Village
• UPDATE (04-28-19): ISIS Relaunches as a Global Platform
•  At least 700 Muslim refugees flee their homes in Sri Lanka and go into hiding after Easter attacks

25 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lanka Attacks Signals ISIS' Widening Reach

23 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lanka bombings: ISIS claims responsibility for deadly church and hotel attacks on Easter Sunday
• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lanka minister: Easter bombings a response to NZ attacks
• UPDATE (04-27-19): Sri Lankan bombers film themselves pledging allegiance to ISIS leader al-Baghdadi before carrying out terror attack
•  UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS suspect gave advance warning of Sri Lanka bombings, source says

22 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Gloating ISIS fanatics celebrate Sri Lanka attacks as revenge for New Zealand mosque massacre as they praise suicidal bombers in online propaganda

21 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): A month after IS 'caliphate' defeated, challenges aplenty

19 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS Resurgence Update - April 2019

17 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Two men training for terrorism arrested in Sicily

16 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): 'Have a nice day': ISIS fanatics revel in Notre Dame's destruction days before Easter as they describe the inferno as 'retribution and punishment'

15 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS claims to have killed 362 people in 92 attacks around the world in just three days in a 'revenge invasion' after the collapse of its 'calliphate'
• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS plans to copy Paris Bataclan massacre with a swathe of fresh attacks across Europe are revealed on a hard drive dropped by jihadis fighting in their final stronghold in Syria

9 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Seven people killed in North Sinai suicide boming

4 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): Islamic State releases first combat video from Mali

3 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): ISIS Has Not Been Defeated. It's Alive and Well in Southern Syria.

2 April 2019

• UPDATE (04-27-19): IS children, the lost generation
• UPDATE (04-27-19): The Islamic State's refugees are facing a humanitarian calamity