After years, music fills streets of Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq - For centuries, it was a magnet for artists across the region and churned out Iraq's best musicians - but recent years saw Mosul suffer a devastating musical purge.

For three years until last summer, the sprawling northern city was under the brutal rule of the Islamic State group.

In imposing a citywide ban on playing or even listening to music, the terrorists smashed and torched instruments.