A Mancunian actor fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) in Syria has been filmed playing an Ariana Grande song in the centre of the newly-liberated city of Raqqa in retaliation for the Manchester attack.

Michael Enright, who left a career in Hollywood and is now fighting with the Kurdish YPG militia, said as the terror group came to “my city” and “tried to shut up Ariana Grande” it was fitting that the pop star's music should be the first to be heard in Raqqa.

The 52-year-old brandished his Kalashnikov rifle to the camera as Grande's hit Bang Bang blared out of his phone in the infamous Naim Square, where Isil carried out numerous executions and other atrocities.

The footage comes days after the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) recaptured Raqqa, which was the terror group’s de facto capital in Syria. Its fall means Isil now holds no more major cities, although it still controls a swathe of territory between Syria and Iraq.

Speaking in an interview with a Kurdish news outlet on Saturday, Mr Enright said: “Because I am from Manchester and they came to my city - they came to my city - and they tried to shut up Ariana Grande, that she would be the first one to sing.