Children are dying from preventable diseases and women are giving birth in unsafe conditions in a Syrian camp, Médecins Sans Frontières have said.

A young Corkman fighting Islamic State (IS) in Syria describes life in the “dark mess” of the Raqqa front.

A US-backed Syrian Kurdish force expects to push on and capture Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria this summer, a commander said.

A misdirected airstrike has killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the US military says.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have pushed into the outskirts of the Islamic State group's stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria.