Islamic State Threatens to Wreak Havoc on Baghdad

World leaders are making plans to ramp up the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group.

President Barack Obama and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are meeting with 23 coalition partners in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to strategize on how halt the advance of the jihadist army.

Meanwhile, ISIS terrorists continue to advance and take new ground despite U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.

In the past few days, ISIS has been blasting the Syrian city of Kobani.

More than 200,000 people have already fled across the border into Turkey, and the U.S. fears a possible massacre of those who remain.   

The United States and its coalition partners will be able to use Turkish bases to launch air attacks against the jihadist army in Syria and Iraq. American defense officials say Turkey has also agreed to train several thousand moderate Syrian rebels on Turkish soil.
    
Meanwhile, ISIS is also threatening to wreak havoc on the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Fighting between Shiites and Sunnis is being overshadowed as the jihadist army moves on the nation.

"ISIS is blending into parts of the disenfranchised Sunni population. "An enemy adapts and they'll be harder to target. Yeah, they know how to maneuver and how to use populations and concealment," Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said.

CBN News Reporter Mark Martin talked with contributor Chuck Holton, who is in Iraq, to get a better idea of the threat that ISIS poses to Baghdad. 

   
On Monday, Multiple suicide bombings killed at least 30 people and wounded scores more near the capital city. Gen. Dempsey said ISIS fighters came within 15 miles of the airport in Baghdad.
    
In an interview with ABC's "This Week," Dempsey said if the Islamic State sweeps into Baghdad, residents there could be massacred.

"Whether there are still 5,000 people there or not is a matter of conjecture at this point," he said. "I have no doubt that ISIL will conduct the same kind of horrific atrocities if they have the opportunity to do so."

Also, Reuters reports that ISIS is enslaving families from the Yazidi sect in northwest Iraq. The terrorist group is calling for the defeat of "idolators" and using women and children as the spoils of war.