Fear of factional fighting drives 100,000 Syrians to northern Kurdish areas

Rival forces backed by US and Turkey seek to secure territory after Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham toppled regime

Middle East crisis – live updates

More than 100,000 people are estimated to have fled into Kurdish-administered areas in northern Syria amid escalating factional fighting and fears of retaliatory attacks after the collapse of forces loyal to the former president Bashar al-Assad.

Tensions appear to be concentrated primarily on the town of Manbij, north-east of Aleppo, and the mixed Arab and Kurdish town of Deir Ezzour in eastern Syria.

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