Aircraft strike IS militants in Libya's Sabratha city, 40 killed
Strikes against Islamic State mittens in Sabratha, Libya have killed at least 30 people, the BBC are reporting.
The New York Times newspaper cited an anonymous official as saying that US planes had carried out the strikes.
According to the New York Times, the target with a top Tunisian jihadist link to two terror attacks last year.
WFP delivers food to besieged city of Moadamiya
American warplanes struck IS training camp in Libya: AP
The Associated Press has this update on the reports of strikes against Islamic State targets in Libya.
Turkey's Erdogan to warn Obama over Syria Kurdish fighters: AFP
Fighting in Syria rages on despite hoped for cessation of hostilities
Fighting continues to rage in Syria today, despite hopes that a cessation of hostilities agreed by world powers in Munich last week would materialize, AFP report.
Meanwhile, Turkey intensified it's shelling of Kurdish-led forces and UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said that a February 25 date for the resumption of peace talks was no longer possible.
Notorious Australian IS militant 'worked in accounts in Mosul'
Australian media is reporting today that notorious Australian IS militant Neil Prakash -- AKA Abu Khalid al-Cambodi -- was not a frontline fighter, but worked instead in a desk job in admin and finance for the extremist group in Mosul, Iraq before he was killed in a US-led airstrike last month.
Prakash's death has not been confirmed, but the senior security adviser to the Iraqi government has said that he was almost certain the Australian died when a bank building was struck in a U.S.-led airstrike in January.
World powers to hold Syria ceasefire talks in Geneva
Military officials from 17 countries are to meet in Geneva to discuss how to secure a cessation of hostilities in Syria, as a deadline they set expires, the BBC reports.
Representatives of the United States and Russia, which back opposing sides in the conflict, held talks earlier in an effort to agree a joint position.
But a truce looks increasingly unlikely as fighting continues onon the ground in Syria.
Turkey's Erdogan says Syrian Kurds used U.S. weapons on civilians
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said U.S.-supplied weapons had been used against civilians by the YPG, a Syrian Kurdish militia group that Ankara blames for a deadly suicide bombing.
Erdogan said he would talk to President Barack Obama about it later on Feb. 19, Reuters report.
IS has used at least 89 children in suicide missions: Washington Post
There have been at least 89 cases over the past year in which the Islamic State group have employed children or teenagers in suicide missions, according to new research that indicates the terrorist group is sending youths to their deaths in greater and greater numbers, the Washington Post reports.