4 killed in IS attack in E. Iraq

BAGHDAD, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Three brothers and one of their relatives were killed on Thursday in an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial police source said.

IS militants opened fire at a group of young men swimming in the Diyala River in the town of Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Major Alaa al-Saadi of the police provincial co