Mosul residents celebrate first wedding since ISIS was crushed in the east of the city

Mosul residents have celebrated their liberation from ISIS by holding a wedding for the first time since the terror group was driven from their neighbourhoods.

Pictures show smiling wedding guests in a white car covered in decorations in a recaptured eastern part of the city.

The dissident group Mosul Eye posted the image along with a caption saying: 'The wedding of freedom. First wedding in Mosul after liberation Congratulations 2 the newly weds their wedding & their freedom.'

It is a stark contrast to the days when ISIS fanatics ruled with an iron fist under a regime in which women were flogged for not wearing full veils covering them from head to toe.

Further pictures show how Mosul residents returning to work and cleaning the bomb-hit streets. 

The activist group said: 'Signs of life revival in Mosul after liberation. Fresh goods and markets start to thrive back to normal life.'

One picture shows a man taking it upon himself to sweep the streets, with a caption saying: 'Nothing is better than loving ur city & make it look clean .. this man's love reflects in removing the ruins of war.'

Life is starting to return to the city's east bank, which Iraqi forces have now completely retaken from ISIS, 100 days into a vast military operation launched in mid-October on the jihadists' last major stronghold in the country.

Some 30 schools reopened this week and a total of 16,000 children were enrolled. -Daily Mail reports.