Middle East timeline August 2016

Sources: BBC News; ITV News; SKY News; Daily Express; Daily Mail; The Guardian.

Monday 1^st August 2016

'listen Putin, we will kill you in your homes' ISIS warns Russia in chilling video (Daily Express)

ISIS release vile report on western society describing in detail 'why we hate you! (Daily Express)

Muslim thrown to the dogs after converting to Christianity says ISIS not the real threat (Daily Express)

Sickening moment ISIS barbarians chop off a thief's hand with a meat cleaver in front of a baying crowd (Raqqa)

'It's not right to identify Islam with violence': pope Francis refuses to link Muslims with terror after a string of attacks in Europe

met chief warns new UK terror atrocity 'is a case of when not if': Britain's top cop warns 600 extra armed police are 'not enough to stop attack'

what its now like to holiday in France: armed soldiers patrol the beaches after terror attacks leave country on high alert (France)

'we will come and kill you in your homes': ISIS terrorists threaten Putin with new propaganda video saying Russia is the Jihadi's latest target

Haunted eyes of the children who've already seen too much: Iraqi boys forced to watch ISIS butchers behead 2 'spies' in a park as they threaten to attack Marseilles next

(Daily Mail articles)

Tuesday 2^nd August 2016

Mother's fears toddler could be taken to Syria (Sky News)

Hero SAS sniper saves hundreds of lives by killing ISIS suicide bomber with just one shot (Daily Express)

Inhumane ISIS thugs publicly amputate 'thief's hand in front of blood thirsty mob (Daily Express)

ISIS blitzed: terror group sustains 'heavy losses' as US bombers blast Libyan strongholds (Daily Express)

ISIS divided: deadly infighting breaks out as foreign jihadi leader opens fire on 'jealous' local extremists for failing to follow orders at Iraqi training camp (Daily Mail)

Wednesday 3^rd August 2016

Rebels seek to break Aleppo siege

Chlorine gas dropped in Syria, say rescuers (Sky News)

'you're too late' heartbreak of families who miss final goodbye before mass execution (Daily Express)

RAF fighter jets bomb Saddam Hussein's former palace in Iraq that was being used by ISIS as 'major headquarters and training centre' (Daily Mail)

Thursday 4^th August 2016

Syria rebels 'made toxic gas attack'

'you will pay a high price' ISIS promises to conquer Rome and wipe out Jews in chilling clip (Daily Express)

ISIS thugs slaughter pregnant mother as she tries to flee village with her children (Daily Express)

Friday 5^th August 2016

Syria refugees get first aid in weeks

Gotcha: ISIS jihadi who downed Russian jet pulverised in Egyptian army's revenge air strike (Daily Express)

British pirates of the Caribbean star returns to Syria to fight ISIS despite death threats (Daily Express)

Saturday 6^th August 2016

Syrian rebels storm Aleppo base

IS captures 3,000 Iraqi villagers, says UN (Sky News)

Sunday 7^th August 2016

Rebels 'break siege' of Syrian city

Monday 8^th August 2016

Jets pound rebels in key Syrian city

Teen taken to Syria by his mum to join ISIS calls on British Muslims to wage jihad on UK (Daily Express)

Tuesday 9^th August 2016

Water cut 'threatens Aleppo children'

Revealed: top SAS troops pictured fighting ISIS on Syrian front line for the first time (Daily Express)

Wednesday 10^th August 2016

Bombing Islamic state: 26,000 targets hit (Sky News)

Elite SAS troops lead secret plan to wipe out ISIS: special forces work with MI5 in Syria (Daily Express)

Thursday 11^th August 2016

Aleppo hit by clashes despite truce bid

UN inquiry into 'gas attack 'in Syria

ISIS annihilated: 45,000 jihadis killed in war on terror (but just 3 US troops have died) (Daily Express)

A split second from death: Gay man plummets to the ground after ISIS murderers throw him from a roof in Iraq. (Daily Mail)

Friday 12^th August 2016

London schoolgirl 'feared dead in Syria'

Aleppo 'deep concern' despite ceasefire hope (Sky News)

Russia's Aleppo ceasefire met with scepticism (Sky News)

End of ISIS? Turkey forms super alliance with Russia to annihilate Islamic state in Syria (Daily Express)

ISIS digs up Nazi mines: terror group trawls sand for fresh ammunition in north African desert where 17 million death-traps were left by Rommel's men in battles with desert rats (Daily Mail)

Saturday 13^th August 2016

Conjoined twins born in Syria war zone

Syrian rebels 'cut off IS escape route'

Girl's 'Syria death' prompts review call

Rebels 'take city of Manbij from IS in Syria' (Sky News)

'blonde, blue eyed girls are particularly popular' says ISIS sex slave captured in Iraq (Daily Express)

ISIS cowards hide behind 2000 'human shields' as they flee key Syrian town (Daily Express)

Revealed: cruel ISIS whip women with chains for wearing make up or smoking (Daily Express)

Sunday 14^th August 2016

Beards cut and niqabs burnt as IS city freed (Sky News)

Elite British special forces catch top IS chief (Daily Express)

Monday 15^th August 2016

Dozens dead in air strikes on rebel held Aleppo (Sky News)

Tuesday 16^th August 2016

Iraqi Kurds gain new front in fight for Mosul (Sky News)

Aleppo witnessing 'devastating' urban conflict (Sky News)

Grotesque Islamic state fanatics BOIL 6 people in TAR after accusing them of being spies (Daily Express)

Russia says it is ready to work with US to ensure peace in Aleppo (Daily Express)

Thursday 18^th August 2016

Image of injured Syria boy draws outrage

nearly 18,000 died' in Syria prisons

Dazed boy pulled from rubble in horror video (Sky News)

War graves shed light on Iran's role in Syria (Sky News)

Revealed: life inside Syrian jail where guard forced prisoner to RAPE inmate or die (Daily Express)

Friday 19^th August 2016

Photos show IS 'human shields' in Syria

Re branded Nusra Front uniting Syria's rebels (Sky News)

Fighting rages in Aleppo despite global anger at image of injured child (Guardian)

Saturday 20^th August 2016

US scrambles jets to Syria's Hassakeh

Message from Aleppo: Omran is not the only one (Sky News)

IS pictured fleeing city with human shields (Sky News)

Russia launches long range kalibr cruise missiles from Mediterranean sea to target al Qaeda linked militants in Syria (Daily Mail)

Sunday 21^st August 2016

Kurdish wedding massacre blamed on IS

Bloodied Syrian boy's brother 'dies'

Omran's brother dies from wounds after strike (Sky News)

Life under Islamic state brutality: displaced families, dead babies and endless fight (Daily Express)

Exclusive: deadly elite foreign legion force could be about to be unleashed on ISIS (Daily Express)

Christian fightback: astonishing plan to liberate land from vile ISIS (Daily Express)

Monday 22^nd August 2016

Boy 'suicide bomber' stripped of explosives belt (Iraq) (Sky News)

Tuesday 23^rd August 2016

Turkey shells both sides in north Syria

Shock claim: china accuses west of faking photos of bloodies Syrian boy omran daqneesh (Daily Express)

ISIS to lose its capital in Iraq: special forces launch push to retake town south of mosul ahead of battle to liberate the jihadist held city

shocking moment ISIS assassins murder a 'military chief' in Yemen in a gangland style drive by shooting

tourists left terrified as fake 'ISIS attack' is staged in Prague by machine gun wielding anti immigration protesters (Czech republic) (Daily Mail)

Tuesday 24^th August 2016

Turkish tanks roll into northern Syria

Wednesday 25^th August 2016

Turkey backed rebels seize IS held border town (Sky News)

Yazidi teen set herself ON FIRE in desperate bid to stop Islamic state jihadis raping her (Daily Express)

Heinous Islamic state uses chemical weapons during savage Aleppo attack, UN discovers (Daily Express)

Now depraved ISIS fighters use drones to film jihadi fighters sick suicide bombings (Daily Express)

Thursday 26^th August 2016

Evacuation of besieged Darayya begins

Friday 27^th August 2016

US Russia 'closer' to Syria ceasefire

'British boy' shown in IS killing video (Sky News)

Sunday 28^th August 2016

IS-linked group frees militants in raid

Barrel bomb attack on Aleppo wake kills 15 (Sky News)

Assad's brutally effective dark ages war craft (Sky News)

Fight against ISIS: SAS gets rescue unit for war on jihadis (Daily Express)

ISIS abandons key city leaving 13,000 booby traps in fridges, fruit baskets and KETTLES (Daily Express)

first it was Cubs of the Caliphate, now its the Daesh dad's army: grey haired ISIS fanatics execute prisoners days after terror group turns boys into killers (Daily Mail)