Iraqi forces free 11-year-old girl

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces in  Mosul have freed an 11-year-old  Yazidi girl who was kidnapped  and sold as a slave by the Islamic  State group in 2014, the  federal police said on Friday.  The girl was taken by the Jihadists  from the village of  Kosho, south of the Yazidi hub of  Sinjar in northern Iraq, together  with hermother and sisters.  She was freed during an operation  by the security forces on  Thursday in the west Mosul  neighbourhood of Tanek, federal  police chief Lieutenant General  Raed Shakir Jawdat said in a  statement. The elite Counter-Terrorism  Service has been operating  in the area and securedmore  than half of the neighbourhood  on Thursday.—AFP