Bank looted by Islamic State recaptured by Iraqi security forces
Iraqi security forces today captured the central bank's main branch in Mosul, which Islamic State had looted when it overran the city in 2014, a military spokesman said.
Iraqi security forces have recaptured the Mosul bank from ISIS
Rapid Response soldiers also seized a building that housed Islamic State's main court of justice, Lieutenant Colonel Abdel Amir al-Mohammadawi, a spokesman for the elite interior ministry units, said.
The court was known for delivering harsh sentences, including stonings, throwing people suspected of being homosexual off the roofs of high buildings and chopping off the hands of alleged thieves, reflecting Islamic State's extreme ideology.
Islamic State looted the bank when they took the city in 2014
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The central bank branch and the justice court are in the same area as the main government buildings complex that Rapid Response stormed overnight.
The news comes after Iraqi troops may have killed "tens" of Islamic State jihadis in an offensive military manoeuvre to reclaim the war-torn city of Mosul.