IS militants kill 6 in N. Iraq

BAGHDAD, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Six people from one family were killed in an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants on their home in Iraq's Salahudin province Wednesday, said the provincial police.

The attack occurred in the morning when the militants stormed a house in a village near the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad, killing a man, two women, and three children, Colonel Mohammed al-Bazi from the m