The War Against The Islamic State -- News Updates February 17, 2015

Daily Mail: ISIS burn 45 people to death in captured Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi as Islamists attack the homes of security forces' families



* Western town al-Baghdadi captured by ISIS fighters last week

* Victims thought to be members of security forces and their families

* Follows barbaric video of Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kaseasbeh

* Attack is only five miles from air base with 320 US Marines

The War Against The Islamic State -- News Updates February 17, 2015

Anti-ISIS coalition hits key targets in Iraq, Syria -- Al Arabiya

Iraq Shiite militias rush to defend oil-rich Kirkuk from Islamic State -- Washington Times

Humanitarian Situation 'Severe' As IS Redeploy In Central Baghdadi -- Radio Free Europe

Iraq tells United Nations that Islamic State committed genocide -- Reuters

Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq' -- BBC

ISIS Burns ’45 People’ to Death in al-Baghdadi, Iraq: Reports -- Epoch Times

US and coalition forces train Iraqi troops to fight Islamic State -- Stars and Stripes

Iraq PM Abadi planning Mosul offensive to rout Isis 'within months' -- IBTimes

Iraqi PM Abadi hails ‘acceleration of support’ against ISIS -- Al Arabiya/AFP

ISIS creating 'provinces' outside of Syria and Iraq -- Haaretz/Reuters

Sunni leaders to gather in Erbil to adopt united anti-ISIS stance -- Rudaw

ISIS Top Commanders Related To Al-Baghdadi Captured; Western Fighters Join Christian Militia Against ISIS -- IBTimes

Westerners join Iraqi Christian militia to fight Islamic State -- Reuters

Sadr suspends militias after Sunni leader’s murder -- Rudaw

ISIS kidnaps 120 civilians in Iraq -- Middle East Monitor

Islamic State Secures New Haven in Libya -- WSJ

Hezbollah admits it is fighting Islamic State -- UPI

US Intensifies Effort to Blunt ISIS' Message -- NYT

Double-layered veils and despair … women describe life under Isis -- The Guardian

The Iraq conflict is becoming a tale of two regions -- Tim Lister, CNN

ISIS has momentum to keep expanding, General Garner warns -- FOX News

Congress should deny Obama’s request for another ISIS war -- H.A. Goodman, The Hill

ISIS Brutality: From Beheadings To Sex Slaves And Everything In Between -- Inquisitr

In fight against Islamic State, Iraqi sectarianism is rising, not falling -- Dan Murphy, CSM

On the Impossibility of Fighting ISIS -- James Fallows, The Atlantic