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Australia charges woman with terrorism over IS links

People walk around at Camp Roj, where relatives of people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group are held in the countryside near al-Malikiyah in the northeastern Hasakah province of Syria, on Oct 8, 2023. (Photo: AFP)

SYDNEY - Australian police have charged a woman linked to the Islamic State group with membership of a terrorist organisation and entering a known conflict zone.

Hundreds of women from Western nations were lured to the Middle East as IS gained prominence in the early 2010s, in many cases following husbands who had signed up as jihadist fighters.

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