December ISIS Updates

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31 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-09-15): How to raise a jihadi-baby: Horrifying ISIS guide for mothers instructs them to ban TV to 'protect little ears', tell bedtime stories about fighting and give toddlers weapons training with toy guns
• UPDATE (01-09-15): Obama Enjoy John Allen: No 'Short-term Solutions' for Stopping Islamic State

29 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-09-15): Islamic State blamed for almost 2,000 executions in less than six months

28 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-09-15): In Battle to Defang ISIS, U.S. Targets its Psychology
• UPDATE (01-09-15): Israeli Journalist 'Horrified' After Interviewing ISIS Fighters About Bloodthirsty Terror Tactics
• UPDATE (12-29-14): Islamic State executed nearly 2,000 people in six months

26 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-29-14): ISIS blows up Catholic church in Mosul
• UPDATE (12-27-14): Pope Makes Satellite Call to Iraqi Refugees

25 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-26-14): Pope prays on Christmas for end to 'brutal persecution' in Iraq, Syria

24 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-26-14): Pope Writes Mideast Christians to Assure Solidarity

23 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-26-14): Pope's Christmas Letter to Christians in Middle East

22 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-09-15): Another Minnesotan possibly killed fighting for ISIS

19 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-23-14): Iraq: Dire winter conditions expose shocking gaps in humanitarian assistance for thousands displaced
• UPDATE (12-20-14): In Syria, Christmas Joy in the Face of Suffering
• Mount Sinjar: Islamic State siege broken, say Kurds

18 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-13-15): ISIS beheads 150 females, including pregnant women, for refusing to marry terrorists
• UPDATE (01-09-15): Islamic State Mocks US With Photoshopped Santa Held Hostage
• UPDATE (01-09-15): The Islamic State turns the monastery of St. George into a prison, the cross on the dome removed

17 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-13-15): Islamic State Publishes Penal Code, Says It Will Be Vigilantly Enforced
• UPDATE (12-23-14): ISIL sponsored by Saudi petrol dollars: Iran's top commander
• UPDATE (12-18-14): ISIS Attacks American Base in Iraq in First Ever Clash with US Troops
• UPDATE (12-18-14): 230 bodies 'found in mass grave' in Deir al-Zour
• UPDATE (12-18-14): Syrian Jihadists Are Using a Texas Plumber's Truck to Shoot Down Aircraft
• UPDATE (12-18-14): "The Legal Foundations of the Islamic State," by Mara Revkin

16 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-13-15): More than 7,000 Christian refugees from Iraq; Caritas Jordan: "in two months will not have anymore resources to assist them"
• UPDATE (12-18-14): First ground clash between ISIS and US forces in Iraq
• So ISIS Is Not Infidel - Are Christians?

15 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-16-14): ISIS, Assad, and What the West is Missing About Syria
• UPDATE (12-16-14): An Actual War on Women
• UPDATE (12-16-12): Obama vows no safe have for Islamic State
• Five men in court on Syria-related terror and fraud charges
• About 300 Chinese said fighting alongside Islamic State in Middle East
• Jordanian prince answer pope's call to denounce ISIS

14 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-15-14): In Iraq, Sunni tribes pay heavy toll for joining fight against Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-15-14): Islamic State Imposes Strict New Order in Mosul, and Deprivation Is a Result
• UPDATE (12-15-14): Iran advisers boost anti-ISIL battles in Iraq
• The terrorist bureaucracy: Inside the files of the Islamic State in Iraq

13 December 2014

• UPDATE (01-13-15): Chaldean Patriarch calls for fasting on Christmas Eve for refugees' return to Mosul
• UPDATE (01-13-15): Christmas in an Iraqi refugee camp
• UPDATE (12-15-14): ISIS regaining ground in western Iraq
• UPDATE (12-14-14): ISIS in Syria: Photos show extremists stoning a couple to death for adultery and beheading four men
• UPDATE (12-14-14): Two Sydney women flee to Syria to become IS jihadi terror brides
• UPDATE (12-14-14): ISIS: Enslaving, having sex with 'unbelieving' women, girls is OK
• UPDATE (12-14-14): Islamic State Storms Town in Western Iraq, Kills 19 Police
• Islamic State Group Shoots Down Iraqi Helicopter
• Bangalore Police arrest pro-jihad Twitter handle user Medhi Biswas, book him under Unlawful Activities Act
• India arrests man over pro-Islamic State tweets

12 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-14-14): Turkish imam joins ISIL in Syria, deputy PM confirms
• UPDATE (12-14-14): 'I would kill you': ISIS captive held by Kurds admits taking 70 lives
  
• UPDATE (12-13-14): 'Many Christians in the Middle East flee inhumane violence'
• UPDATE (12-13-14): Pope urges Syriac Catholic bishops to coordinate efforts to meet humanitarian needs
• 'Every five minutes, a Christian dies in the Middle East'
• Maronite priest: Western bombing of Islamic State could worsen situation
• Jakarta Post's editor faces blasphemy charge for cartoon mocking Islamic State
• How is Islamic State funded?
• Islamic State's reign of terror named top religion story of 2014 by Religion Newswriters Association

11 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-13-14): Islamic State orders wifi cut during prayers
• UPDATE (12-12-14): ISIS Used Predatory Tools and Tactics to Convince U.S. Teens to Join
• UPDATE (12-12-14): Mosul diaries: A terrifying night
• Fighting Fire With Fire: Jordan's Risky Strategy Against the Islamic State
• ISIS: The Inside Story
• Is IS on an inevitable path to destruction?
• Report: Islamic State Attempting to Sell James Foley's Body for $1 Million

10 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-12-14): Middle east priest: 'Don't bomb Islamic State, they will destroy themselves from within'
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Militants Pledged to Islamic State Blamed for Killing 10 in Philippines Bus Bombing
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Islamic State suicide bombing kills 12 Shi'ite militia fighters
• UPDATE (12-11-14): 2 million Iraqis have been displaced by Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Qatar allows money to flow to Islamic State, other terrorists: Report
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Prince of Wales Reaches Out to Iraqi Christians
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Anti-Islamic State Coalition At Odds Over Syria Strategy
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Islamic State Poaches International Aid for Syrians: Thefts Are Latest Weapon in Quest for Power
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Man, 19, from Grangetown, charged with two terrorism offenses
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Shi'ite pilgrims flock to Iraq holy city, government fears attack

9 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-11-14): Imam who condemns Islamic State stabbed in N-W Bosnia
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Prince Charles deeply distressed by persecution of Christians by 'dark ages' Islamic Jihadists
• UPDATE (12-11-14): Senate Torture Report Is Propaganda Bonanza for Islamic Militants, Feds Say
• ISIS in Syria beheads man for 'blasphemy'
• Oil and ISIS
• Anbar Tribe: We Only Have Ammo to Fight IS For Five More Days
• At least 20 Australians killed in Syria and Iraq fighting for terrorist groups, Brandis says
• IS militants use Australian recruits as 'cannon fodder'

8 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-09-14): Three American teens, recruited online, are caught trying to join the Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-09-14): Iraq's top Catholic opposes bombing, insists Christians must stay
• UPDATE (12-09-14): Rivalries resurface in Iraq town recaptured from Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-09-14): Afghan students find inspiration in Islamic State's success

7 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-09-14): French Cardinal: Christians must condemn Islamic violence
• UPDATE (12-08-2014): ISIS fighter from Ottawa appears in video threatening Canada with attacks 'where it hurts you the most'
• EU to seek more Turkish help in Islamic State fight
• Western Foreign Fighters: Innovations in Responding to the Threat

6 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-07-14): Pope's video message for the Christians and people of Iraq
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Islamic State group support grows in Jordan town, a microcosm of challenge to halt militants
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Pope Francis decries persecution of Iraqi Christians in video message

5 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-11-14): Controversial Aussie Muslim backs right to fight for Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-09-14): The Syrian Civil War, From Space
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Al-Azhar condemns Islamic State
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Germany, in a First, Convicts a Returned Jihadist
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Iran's Military Mastermind is 'The Leader of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen'
• UPDATE (12-07-14): British jihadists get 12 years for traveling to Syria to fight with extremists
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Mosque in Germany found spreading ISIL ideology closed by police
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Syria terror training Briton jailed for four years
  
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Islamic State reaps profits from organ trafficking
  
• UPDATE (12-07-14): Gaza writers receive death threats from IS
• Will an ancient Christian culture disappear unless East and West unite?
• Car bomb attacks strike Iraq

4 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-11-2014): Church Bells Now Silent in Iraq
• UPDATE (12-05-2014): Iran dismisses military cooperation against ISIL
• UPDATE (12-05-2014): Islamic State cedes little ground despite air attacks
• UPDATE (12-05-2014): Syriac Catholic Patriarch: West ignores Iraq's Christians because they represent no economic interests

3 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-04-2014): U.S. military monitoring Islamic State training in Libya - general
• UPDATE (12-04-2014): U.S. and Iran Both Attack ISIS, But Try Not to Look Like Allies
• UPDATE (12-04-2014): Two men charged with terror offenses for helping a 17-year-old boy travel to Syria
• UPDATE (12-04-2014): Kerry says Iran strikes 'positive'
• Iran denies bombing ISIL targets in Iraq
• Iraqi Official Reportedly Says Woman Detained By Lebanese Army Is Not Wife of Islamic State Leader
• Iran jets bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq - Pentagon

2 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-03-2014): Vicar of Baghdad: Four Iraqi Christian Kids Beheaded After Refusing to Convert to Islam, Telling ISIS Militants, 'No, We Love Jesus'
• What Do Asian-Oceanic Nations Think About ISIS?
• Islamic State-Linked Militants Hijacked Egyptian Missile Boat as Part of Wider Planned Attack
• Churches in Mosul are used as prisons by Caliphate jihadists
• Six Lebanese soldiers killed near Syria border
• Patriarch Twal's Appeal to Bishops: 'Keep Christian Families in the Holy Land'
• Report: Wife, Son of Islamic State Leader Baghdadi Detained By Lebanese Army

1 December 2014

• UPDATE (12-02-2014): After joining IS, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis expands in Egypt
• UPDATE (12-02-2014): Oprah Targeted in Foiled Terror Bomb Plot
• Christianity is Bleeding
• FBI Bulletin Warns of Islamic State Terrorist Attacks Targeting Homeland Military Community
• Islamic State militants kill 16 Iraqi soldiers on Syria border
• 'Hipster Jihadi' Islam Yaken: Cosmopolitan Egyptian Who Became Ruthless ISIS Fighter Reported Dead
• Hawke's Bay (New Zealand) Muslim forms own Islamic State