Christian feast day: 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya

On 12 February 2015, the Islamic State (IS) released a report in their online magazine Dabiq showing photos of 21 Christian construction workers—twenty from Egypt and one from Ghana—that they had kidnapped in the city of Sirte, Libya, and who they reported had been killed. The men, who came from different villages in Egypt, 13 of them from Al-Our, Minya Governorate, were kidnapped in Sirte in two separate attacks on 27 December 2014, and in January 2015. On 15 February, a video was released showing their murder by beheading.

February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 319 days remain until the end of the year.