Their return last year sparked debate, and an arrest this week fanned the flames, but a look overseas provides insight into how other countries have dealt with some returned IS (Islamic State) wives.
This week, authorities in New South Wales charged a repatriated widow of a militant for the so-called IS with terror offences for allegedly entering an IS-controlled area of Syria in 2014.
Mariam Raad is the only Australian woman returned from Syria to face legal action to date.
