Iraqi forces in Mosul have freed an 11-year-old Yazidi girl who was kidnapped and sold as a slave by the IS in 2014. The federal police said today the girl was taken by the IS from the village of Kosho, south of the Yazidi hub of Sinjar in northern Iraq, together with her mother and sisters. <br/><br/>She was freed during an operation by the security forces in the west Mosul neighbourhood of Tanek. The elite Counter-Terrorism Service has been operating in the area and secured more than half of the neighbourhood yesterday.