A blasé Kurdish fighter filmed a selfie video of himself sipping a coffee while being shot at in the Syrian city of Tabqah.

The footage, filmed sometime in May 2017, shows the fighter for the mainly Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) sipping what looks like an espresso while shots are fired off in his direction from suspected Islamic State fighters - including at the roof of the building over his head.

Tabqah lies approximately 20km west from the onetime Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa. In May 2017, US Central Command declared that Washington-backed forces had taken control of the Tabqah from IS after a two-month battle.

The filmer describes himself as a Syrian Kurd born in Kurdistan and raised in Sweden. He said he was drawn back to his homeland after Islamic State killed his uncle and closed off his home town.

He said of the video: "You know when you've been up for like 40 hours and just have been shot at for hours and hours and can't freaking see the enemy or have the weapons to go the distance?

"You save your bullets, go down, wash up and make some coffee and then go back up to get shot at again.

"I was drinking coffee and went and got ready for my guard duty. S*** was crazy!"

You know when you been up for like 40 hours and just have been shot at for hours and hours and cant freaking see the enemie or have the weapons to go the distance eehh you save your bullets go down wash up and make some mtfing coffe and then go back up to get shot at again
Im gonna post what happend after i was drinking coffe and went and got ready for my guard duty shit was crazy! Now someone geeeeet me some good cooffee bruuh

Filmed sometime in May 2017