Iraqi women have celebrated being liberated from the rule of ISIS regime by throwing off their hated niqabs in parts of the city of Mosul.

'Today I feel reborn,' said one woman as she threw off the hated symbol of oppression by ISIS, who are known by their enemies in Iraq as Daesh.

Brutal ISIS makes the wearing of a niqab or burka mandatory for women, and they face severe punishment if they refuse.

The group had claimed the oppressive laws were ‘not a restriction’ on women’s freedoms, but were ‘to prevent them from falling into humiliation and vulgarity or to be a theatre for the eyes of those who are looking’.

Women in Mosul hang up their unwanted burkas after being liberated

A video has emerged of women in brightly coloured dresses and scarves discarding the dreary, black niqabs, which they had been forced to wear by their ISIS overlords.

The women are seen hanging up the black clothes, which are then seen hanging on a fence.

Under the ISIS regime, women are also not allowed to wear branded or masculine clothes, or clothes with designs that would attract attention from men.

Muslim women in the West say they wear the burka or niqab out of free choice and as part of their culture but in occupied areas of Iraq and Syria there is no choice.

Earlier this year there were similar scenes after ISIS were driven out of the city of Manbij in Syria.

Crowds of delighted women and children took to the streets there, cheering and clapping as a bystander set her burka ablaze.