ISIS Updates - October 2014

Given the great length of my original post containing daily updates on the activities of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq, I thought it might be good to being a new post of ongoing daily updates here. I expect to do this each month.

31 October 2014

• UPDATE (11-2-2014): Islamic State Announces Beheadings for All Who Insult Allah
• UPDATE (11-2-2014): Nigeria bus station hit by triple bomb blasts, 8 killed
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): Three Iraqis arrested in Switzerland, suspected of planning attack
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): Syria: Christ's followers caught between Assad and the Caliphate
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): Vatican official visits to access humanitarian needs
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): ISIS costumes for Halloween
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces 'cross into Kobane'
• Iraqi Christians Seek Shelter in Jordan After IS Threats
• Aleppo 'at risk' after FSA fighters were sent to Kobane: Commander

30 October 2014

• UPDATE (01-21-15): ISIS's Atrocities Against Women and Religious Minorities: Senate Human Rights Caucus Field Hearing Highlights ISIS's Threat to Chicago and National Security
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): Airstrikes against Islamic State do not seem to have affected flow of fighters to Syria
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): Islamic State 'terror schools': Children as young as five trained to fight and kill
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): ISIS wants to spread Ebola: security chief
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): One in seven young Britons has sympathy with ISIS cause
• Iraq's Christian paramilitaries split in IS fight
• Iraqi Christian refugees in Kurdistan - 'their tears have run dry'
• Salisbury [North Carolina] man pleads guilty to trying to aid [ISIS] terrorist group

29 October 2014

• Islamic State fights Syrian army for gas field, kills 30 - Monitor

28 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-29-2014): Tribal leader: ISIS calls elite of Syria to Mosul after losing control of the city
• UPDATE (10-29-2014): Most Arab states share ISIS' ideology. They're trying to have it both ways
• Peshmerga fighters head to Turkey
• Letter from Archbishop of Mosul: Thank you for your aid, supporting the plight of refugees
• U.S. urges Arab banks to choke ISIS funding
• Syrian Christians, building cemeteries instead of schools
• Australian teenager appears in new ISIS video
• Nusra front rebels attack Idlib

27 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-28-2014): Pentagon: ISIS campaign costing $8.3M per day
• UPDATE (10-28-2014): ISIL jihadists seen with new advanced anti-aircraft missile
• UPDATE (10-28-2014): Car bombings in Iraq kill at least 38 people
• UPDATE (10-28-2014): John Cantlie: Islamic State hostage in 'Kobane' video

24 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-26-2014): Lebanon tells Syrian refugees 'to return' or go elsewhere
• UPDATE (10-26-2014): ISIS finds success in luring Canadians
• UPDATE (10-26-2014): Ex-CIA Case Officer: 'The West is Under Attack from Islamic State-Inspired Radicals'
• UPDATE (10-26-2014): US to investigate claims IS used 'chemical weapons' in Iraq
• UPDATE (10-25-2014): As ISIS approached, a seminarian took the Blessed Sacrament from the church and fled
• UPDATE (10-25-2014): Afghan newspaper's 'blasphemy' causes protests after rebuking ISIS and Islam
• FSA sends forces to help Kurdish fighters in Kobane
• Diary of Life in Mosul
• Yazidis Say They Are Trapped in New ISIS Siege on Iraqi Mountain

23 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-31-2014): Petition for Persecuted Christians in Iraq is Presented at United Nations
• UPDATE (10-25-2014): ISIS Militants Capture Village in Iraq's Anbar from Sunni Tribe
• UPDATE (10-25-2014): FBI warns media: Journalists 'desirable targets' for ISIL
• UPDATE (10-24-2014): Canada Attacks Follow Al-Qaida, IS Instructions to a Tee
  
• UPDATE (10-24-2014): Islamic State Militants Seize Iraq Village, Press Assault on Yazidis
• UPDATE (10-24-2014): Chaldean patriarch suspends 12 monks, priests
• 'Don't abandon us' - Church in Mosul no longer exists
• Islamic State Sympathizers Cheer Canada Shooting

22 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-31-2014): ISIS Sex Slaves: Yazidi Woman Begs West to Bomb Brothel Where She Is Raped Over 30 Times A Day
• UPDATE (10-24-2014): Amid insurgency, Iraqi priest is guardian angel of ancient manuscripts
• Syria Says Shoots down Two of Three 'IS Warplanes'
• Pentagon confirms Islamic State captured bundle of supplies meant for Kurds
• Iran Proposes Axis against ISIL to Iraqi PM Abadi as alternative to US coalition
• US probes 'stray Syria air drop' in IS video

21 October 2014

• UPDATE (12-07-2014): Egyptian Human Rights Activist Ahmad Harqan: ISIS Is Doing what the Prophet Muhammad Did
• UPDATE (11-1-2014): Michele Bachmann given security detail over ISIL threat
• UPDATE (10-22-2014): New Freedoms in Tunisia Drive Support for ISIS
• UPDATE (10-22-2014): Slick, agile, and modern - the IS media machine
• UPDATE (10-22-2014): David Petraeus: 'People Saw ISIS Coming'
• UPDATE (10-22-2014): ISIS releases video clip showing Syrian woman stoned to death by group of men, including her father
• UPDATE (10-22-2014): Teen girls from Denver arrested in Germany were trying to join ISIS, U.S. officials say
• Fresh fighting in key Syrian town of Kobane

20 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-22-2014): ISIS Takes Over Two Towns on Mount Sinjar, Yazidis Please for US Coalition to Save Them
• UPDATE (10-22-2014): Archbishop Laham: 4 thousand displaced Iraqi Christians all want to emigrate to the West
• UPDATE (10-21-2014): 200,000 activists tell Europe: Stand up for persecuted Christians
• Chaldean Abp: a Mideast without Christians?
• Turkey to let Iraq Kurds join Kobane fight
• Israeli aid to Iraq helps Christians persecuted by Islamic State
• Kobane: US drops arms and aid to Kurds battling IS

19 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-23-2014): Syria tribal revolt against Islamic State ignored, fueling resentment
• UPDATE (10-22-2014): Victims of ISIS: Non-western journalists who don't make the headlines
• UPDATE (10-20-2014): U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
• UPDATE (10-20-2014): Islamic State foiled in attempt to kidnap Syrian rebel leader in Turkey
• UPDATE (10-20-2014): An examination of how some define the word 'jihad'

18 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-20-2014): Lebanon pulled into war with Islamic State group
• Slavery in Islam: To have and to hold: Jihadists boast of selling captive women as concubines

17 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-21-2014): Priests race to save manuscripts from jihadists in Iraq
• UPDATE (10-20-2014): ISIS fighters 'crucify' 17-year-old boy in Syria
• UPDATE (10-19-2014): Former Iraqi pilots train Islamic State fighters to fly MiG jets
• UPDATE (10-19-2014): British police officers targeted by alleged ISIL terrorists
• ISIS Militants in Syrian Border Town Begin To Retreat After a Monthlong Battle

16 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-18-2014): NC Man Pleads Guilty In Terrorism Case
• UPDATE (10-18-2014): ISIS targets Baghdad with wave of car bombs and mortar attacks killing 150
• UPDATE (10-18-2014): A church in Qaraqosh bombed by the anti-Caliphate coalition
• UPDATE (10-17-2014): Islamic State desecrates Christian monastery
• UPDATE (10-17-2014): We Won't Be Your Trojan Horse: Sunni Muslim Militias Decide They Won't Fight With IS - or The US Alliance
• UPDATE (10-17-2014): Life In Mosul Under Extremists: Iraqis Cooking With Clay Ovens And Home-Made Heaters
• UPDATE (10-17-2014): Iraq Is Cutting Off Electricity From Regions Held By ISIS
• UPDATE (10-17-2014): 'We will chop off the heads … of whoever you may bring': ISIS terrorists from Europe spew hate in video
• Baron von Boeselager: 'It's a tragedy that thousands of years of Christian culture are being destroyed'
• Islamic State 'being driven out of Syria's Kobane'

15 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-16-2014): Trinidad says 'several' citizens aid Islamic group
• UPDATE (10-16-2014): At War Against ISIS, Iraqi Premier Is Facing Battles Closer to Home
• Has ISIS looted chemical weapons from former Iraqi nerve agent factory that US failed to destroy? UN told 2,500 rockets containing deadly Sarin are in the hands of the jihadist
• The rise of IS in North Africa
• US intensifies airstrikes in Kobane
• The Battle for Baghdad has begun 

14 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-16-2014): Istanbul Rattled By Signs of Islamic State Support
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): National Union of Students refuses to condemn ISIS terrorists because it's 'Islamophobic'
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): Six arrested by counter-terror police: Three men and three women from Portsmouth, Farnborough and Greenwich arrested on terror charges in relation to conflict in Syria
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): Six top TTP commanders announce allegiance to Islamic State's Baghdadi
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): In Kurdish Iraq, Christian refugees are preparing for winter
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): Feds warn of possible ISIS-inspired attacks on police, government officials, media
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): Islamic State militants kill two Iraq journalists
• UPDATE (10-15-2014): White House insists anti-Islamic State strategy is on track, despite setbacks on the ground
• Mideast crisis widens as Turkey bombs Kurdish militants
• Turkish jets bombard Kurdish positions: First air strikes since start of peace talks comes as Kurdish anger grows over perceived government inaction against ISIS
• Latest ISIS offensive displaces thousands of civilians in Iraq
• Islamic State crisis: Kurds 'recapture key Kobane hill'
• Vatican to UN: Middle East minorities need our protection
• Chilling Report Reveals Weapons the Islamic State May Have That is a 'Matter of the Gravest Concern'

13 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-15-2014): Bishop Thomas Paprocki: Confronting the Genocide of Christians in the Middle East
• UPDATE (10-14-2014): Chechens lead way in ISIL war for dominance
• UPDATE (10-14-2014): Patriarch Younan: help Iraq/Syria's Christian, stop violent rhetoric
• UPDATE (10-14-2014): Thousands of Yazidi women sold as sex slaves 'for theological reasons,' says ISIL
• UPDATE (10-14-2014): ISIS seizes military base near Baghdad as bombings in Iraqi capital kill at least 30
  
• UPDATE (10-14-2014): Germany has a serious ISIS problem
• 180,000 flee IS advance in Anbar, UN says
• Iraqi city falls to ISIL as army withdraws: ISIL '100 percent control' Hit in Anbar, says police colonel, after troops are relocated to reinforce nearby airbase
• Turkey 'allows Syria rebel training'
• ISIS magazine shows flag flying in Vatican: Militants' press calls for war against Rome, Catholic Church
• ISIS Magazine Dabiq Threatens 'Rome Crusaders' Flying Islamic State Flag at Vatican on Front Cover
• Turkey 'to let US use bases' against Islamic State

12 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-13-2014): ISIS states its justification for the enslavement of women
• UPDATE (10-13-2014): Battle for Kobane: Turkey pressed to let weapons through to Kurdish fighters
• Terror experts fear 'World War Three' if Kobane falls to Islamic State
• War against ISIS: US strategy in tatters as militants march on

11 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-12-2014): Americans abroad at 'high risk' of ISIS kidnappings, terrorist attacks, U.S. warns
• UPDATE (10-12-2014): Archbishop of Mosul: Christian families 'desperate', solidarity of synod important
  
• UPDATE (10-12-2014): Turkey Arrests 274 Kobane Refugees Fleeing from Islamic State
• UPDATE (10-12-2014): Kobani: time running out for hundreds of besieged civilians
• UPDATE (10-12-2014): Syria: Kobane siege death toll 'passes 500'
  
• UPDATE (10-12-2014): Germany Probes Over 200 Accused of Backing Terrorism: Report
• Kobane: Islamic State battles to encircle Syrian Kurds
• Iraq appeals for help in Anbar against Islamic State

10 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-20-2014): An Overview of Chinese Fighters and Anti-Chinese Militant Groups in Syria and Iraq
• UPDATE (10-17-2014): Silence about Islamic Persecution in the West
• UPDATE (10-13-2014): Syria: Father Hanna to be tried by Islamic court
• UPDATE (10-12-2014): Security services monitoring 'thousands' of terrorism suspects in London, says Boris Johnson
• UPDATE (10-11-2014): ISIS threatens to kill Twitter employees for suspending terrorists' accounts - CEO
• UPDATE (10-11-2014): Moderate Muslims and Cafeteria Catholics: The notion that Islam is a religion of peace is becoming less credible by the day
• UPDATE (10-11-2014): The Islamic State's First Colony in Libya
• UPDATE (10-11-2014): The Islamic State's Oil Network
• ISIS within 8 miles of Baghdad armed with MANPADs
• Thousands 'will most likely be massacred,' U.N. warns, as fighters push into Kobani
• Up to 700 trapped in Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, UN says

9 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-15-2014): The Islamic State's Anbar Offensive and Abu Umar al-Shishani
• UPDATE (10-11-2014): Islamic State Grooms Chechen Fighters Against Putin
• UPDATE (10-11-2014): Does Obama Need 'Time' to Defeat or Forget ISIS?
• UPDATE (10-10-2014): Syria's Christians and the 'New Order' declared by the jihadists
• UPDATE (10-10-2014): 'Our youngest martyr yet' - ISIL boasts about death of 10-year-old
• For the Middle East, war is the main 'family issue'
• Four women abducted along with Father Hanna have been released
• Patriarch Laham Responds to Kidnapping of Franciscan Friar in Syria
• Arab bishops back use of 'proportionate force' to protect minorities
• Biden says it's a priority to assist Iraq's persecuted Christians
• Six miles from ISIS: A shockingly brave priest returns to Iraq
• Turkey action in Syria 'unrealistic'
• Kobane: US and UK warn of air strike limitations

8 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-13-2014): Jimmy Carter criticizes President Obama's ISIS strategy
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): JW Confirms: 4 ISIS Terrorists Arrested in Texas in Last 36 Hours
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): DOD won't recommend U.S. ground troops to save Kobani, warns other towns may fall
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): 11 Rules For Journalists Covering ISIS, Issued by ISIS
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): Extremists in Mosul sell off confiscated [stolen] real estate
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): The Franciscan priest kidnapped after he had appealed to the Islamic Court
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): Nuncio: international community has duty to stop Islamic State
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): Chaldean patriarch calls on Muslims to denounce violence against Christians
• Kobane: IS and Syria Kurds in fierce gun battles
• Western fear of angering Turkey leaves besieged Kurdish town at mercy of Islamic State
• Canada's parliament approves anti-Islamic State air strikes

7 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-9-2014): 'Too late' for Syrian border town as air strikes fail: analysts 
• UPDATE (10-9-2014): FBI investigating Islamic State graffiti around D.C.: report
• UPDATE (10-8-2014): In Babylon, Iraqis shield ancient symbols of identity from Islamic State
• UPDATE (10-8-2014): Turkey says Syria town about to fall as Islamic State advances
• UPDATE (10-8-2014): UN concerned over safety of civilians as ISIL intensifies offensive in Syrian border town
• UPDATE (10-8-2014): Strategic Syrian Border Town 'Is About to Fall' to Islamic State Militants
• UPDATE (10-8-2014): The Fight for Kobane: The Turkish government vowed to prevent the town from falling into the hands of the Islamic State but has yet to take any decisive action
• Chaldean Bishop Blasts Iraqi Government, Muslim Leaders: 'Our People Have Been Abandoned'
• Why did the US help the Kurds in Iraq but leave ISIS to massacre them in Syria?
• Parish priest, 20 Christians kidnapped in Syria
• Praying the Rosary is our secret weapon against ISIS
• Anglican Bishop: 'Most Look to Rome to Stem Tide of Islamic Militancy'

6 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-7-2014): Slaughter Is Feared as ISIS Nears Turkish Border
• UPDATE (10-7-2014): Iraq: Bishop says, 'Our people have been abandoned'
• UPDATE (10-7-2014): Iraq's battles need sense of resolve
• UPDATE (10-7-2014): Islamic State Draws Closer to Baghdad: Apostolic Nuncios Appeal for More Action, in Accordance With International Law, to Stop Unjust Aggressor
• UPDATE (10-7-2014): On Christians and the Open Letter to the Islamic State
• Kobane: Civilians flee IS street-to-street fighting
• Christians in the Middle East: the Church cannot remain silent before the persecution of her children
• Alan Henning murder: Aid worker's brother calls for 'troops on the ground'
• Trojan horse: ISIS militants come to Europe disguised as refugees, US intel sources claim

5 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-6-2014): ISIS' Ammunition Is Shown to Have Origins in U.S. and China
• UPDATE (10-6-2014): Islamic State Militants Publicly Execute Six Iraqi Soldiers, Continue Advance Amid U.S.-Led Airstrikes
• UPDATE (10-6-2014): Jihadists from UK stuck in Turkey after deserting ISIS
• UPDATE (10-6-2014): Islamic State withstands bombing campaign, plots Baghdad invasion: Airstrikes slow terrorists' advances, but coalition forces unable to retake territory

4 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-7-2014): What the Pope can do for Middle East Christians
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): Video: Islamic State group beheads British hostage
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): White House Confirms ISIS Is Holding A Former US Army Ranger Hostage
• UPDATE (10-5-201): Pakistani Taliban declares allegiance to Islamic State and global jihad
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): 'I believe in hopeless causes': American ISIS captive Peter Kassig described how he felt a calling to help wounded Syrian refugees - just one year before he was captured by Islamic militants and became a Muslimhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2780511/ISIS-captive-Peter-Kassig-calls-hopeless-romantic-idealist-revealing-hopes-dreams-2012-profile.html
• UPDATE  (10-5-2014): Apostolic nuncios calls for end to war in Middle East

3 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-9-2014): Statement of the Conference of Latin Bishops of the Arab Regions (CELRA)
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): Islamic State is committing 'staggering' crimes in Iraq - U.N. report
  
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): 'If you want to kill us for our faith then we are prepared to die here and now'
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): Report: ISIS Puts Literal Price Tags on Abducted Girls
  
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): Persecution of Christians Highlights What Unites Us, Pope Tells Assyrian Patriarch
  
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): Antiquities Lost, Casualties of War: In Iraq and Syria, Trying to Protect a Heritage at Risk
  
• UPDATE (10-4-2014): Butler student threatened in latest ISIS beheading video
• Muslim Scholars vs. ISIS: Is the Open Letter to the Islamic State Really Enough?

2 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-15-2014): Northern Iraq: 2,000 Years of Christianity Wiped Out By ISIS
• UPDATE (10-7-2014): Pro-ISIS graffiti in a girl school in Saudi capital stirs controversy
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): Meeting of Apostolic Nuncios from Middle East Underway at Vatican

1 October 2014

• UPDATE (10-5-2014): Islamic State Beheads Seven Men, Three Women in Syria: Human Rights Group
• UPDATE (10-5-2014): ISIS Takes a Kurdish Village in Syria as Car Bomb Kills Dozens in Homs