Nine British medical students have travelled to Syria to help wounded people, they have reportedly told their families.
Some of the parents of the five men and four women, aged in their late teens and early 20s, are said to have travelled to Turkey this weekend in a bid to get them back.
The students, who reportedly flew to Istanbul from Sudan earlier this month, went to the region "to help, not to fight", a Turkish politician assisting the families told The Observer newspaper
