After years, music fills streets of Mosul
China Daily | Updated: 2018-11-23 07:50
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.
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