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Group of women and children linked to Islamic State land in Melbourne and Sydney with no arrests

Cohort of children and six women who were held in a Syrian camp arrived in Australia on Tuesday

The Guardian - AU · May 26

Three women linked to IS charged over alleged actions in Syria after returning to Australia

Two women charged in Melbourne on Friday with another charged in Sydney on Thursday night after group of 13 fly home

The Guardian - AU · May 7

‘We just want our children to be safe’: two Australian states prepare to resettle children from Syrian detention camp

Four women and nine children expected to return to Australia on Thursday with all apart from a mother and her child expected to go to Victoria

The Guardian - AU · May 6

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Sending Australian navy to Middle East not a priority

The closure of one of the world's most important oil corridors continues to wreak economic havoc but Australia's navy is unlikely to join efforts to reopen it.

AAP · Mar 16

Legal doubts emerge over travel home ban for ISIS bride

Policies designed to deal with families linked to Islamic terrorists could breach the constitution, as politicians clash over how to deal with the issue.

AAP · Feb 23

Nightly raids and violent beatings: Australia urged to accept citizens trapped in Syria as conditions in Roj camp deteriorate

Aid workers say the camp where 34 women and children are being held are ‘dire’ and present more risk than if they were repatriated

The Guardian - AU · Feb 21

Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’

US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 6, 2025

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US offered to help return 'ISIS brides' to Australia

Labor insists it did not repatriate ISIS-linked women and children from Syria, but notes reveal it considered getting them home without government involvement.

AAP · Dec 4, 2025

Australians stranded in Syria ‘scared for their lives’ amid chaos after fall of Bashar al-Assad

Anthony Albanese describes situation in country as ‘moving’ but does not commit to repatriation of 40 citizens in detention camps

The Guardian - AU · Dec 9, 2024

‘Indefinite torture’: Australian children held in Syrian camp feel abandoned as other countries repatriate citizens

Plea comes as high court refuses to hear Save the Children appeal to return families of slain Islamic State fighters

The Guardian - AU · Sep 25, 2024

High Court dismisses appeal to return Aust IS families

The High Court has dismissed a bid to compel the government to repatriate Australian women and children of Islamic State militants stuck in Syria.

AAP · Sep 23, 2024

Government could repatriate Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps if it had ‘political will’, court says

The federal court dismissed the case brought by Save the Children and ruled that the government had no legal obligation to bring them home

The Guardian - AU · Jun 18, 2024

Provocative violence installations to confront shoppers

Shoppers will be confronted with provocative scenes at one of the world's best-known retailers in a bid to highlight the plight of families fleeing violence.

AAP · Jun 5, 2024

Australia reinstates funding to Unrwa to provide aid in Gaza

Friday’s decision to ‘unpause’ $6m in funding to Unrwa follows similar moves by Canada and Sweden

The Guardian - AU · Mar 15, 2024

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AAP · Mar 14, 2024

Australia under pressure over Palestinian visas and aid

The US has asked partner nations to help set up a new port to bring aid into Gaza, as Australia cancels the visas of Palestinians fleeing the war.

AAP · Sep 26, 2023

Security concerns 'red herring' in Syrian repatriations

A trial over the repatriation of 11 Australian women and 20 children, who are being detained in Syrian refugee camps, has begun in the Federal Court.

The Guardian - AU · Sep 25, 2023

Australian women and children in squalid Syrian camp are being detained unlawfully, federal court told

Save the Children, representing 12 women and their 21 children, argues the government has the power, and an obligation, to bring them home

The Guardian - AU · Sep 4, 2023

Australia’s rise in military export approvals to Saudi Arabia labelled ‘disturbing’

Permits for the export of equipment increased last year despite kingdom’s involvement in Yemen war

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AAP · Jun 16, 2023

Fight to repatriate Aust women, kids from Syrian camp

A fight has begun for the repatriation of eight Australian women and their 18 children from a Syrian refugee camp where they've been held for up to four years.

The New Daily · Jun 5, 2023

Desperate Aussies stuck in Syria demand repatriation

A group of 17 Australian children and nine women stuck in camps in Syria will file a legal case in the Federal Court of Australia seeking to be repatriated.

The Guardian - AU · Jun 4, 2023

‘Last resort’: government faces legal action to force repatriation of Australians from Syrian refugee camps

Seventeen women and nine children will take the government to court, arguing that Australia has ‘effective control’ of their detention and the power to set them free

The Guardian - AU · May 31, 2023

Australian child pleads with prime minister to be rescued from Syrian detention camp

Exclusive: ‘I have spent half my life in a tent closed off by gates like a prison,’ says the child, who is under 10, in a voice message to Anthony Albanese

The Guardian - AU · Apr 18, 2023

Queensland among worst violators of children’s rights in youth justice system, research finds

Report says states have adopted ‘tough on crime’ measures to youth justice instead of more effective and humane ‘child’s rights approach’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 8, 2023

Australia must rescue citizens from ‘dire’ Syrian detention camps, Red Cross says

Global director general says ‘state of in-limbo cannot last longer’, with about 40 citizens still believed to be detained indefinitely

AAP · Nov 14, 2022

PM urged to lead world on ending hunger

The Australian prime minister is being urged to advocate for developing nations struggling with food shortages as he attends the G20 leaders' meeting in Bali.

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