In an interview with the BBC, Shamima Begum, now 19, said the deaths of 22 innocent people in the terrorist attack on an Ariana Grande concert in 2017 were akin to the "women and children" being bombed in IS territory in Baghuz.

The headteacher of the school attended by three teenage girls believed to have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State has said police found no evidence that the missing students were radicalised there.