At the height of ISIL's influence, its fighters married women and girls from around the world. The girls were lured or kidnapped, and now the children born to those women and fighters are homeless.
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that relatives of suspected ISIL fighters held in camps in Syria will not be brought home.
Thirty-four Australian women and children were released from the Kurdish-controlled Roj detention camp in northern Syria on Monday. But the Australian government has barred them from returning home.
They were then forced back into the camp, said Rashid Omar, a Roj camp worker. He said relatives were still trying to resolve the issue with Syrian authorities.
Roj detention camp director Hakmiyeh Ibrahim told Al Jazeera that the women and children from 11 families had been handed over to “relatives who came to collect them from Australia”. But the government has refused to repatriate them.
Prime Minister Albanese said it was sad that children had been affected by the war. But Australia would not provide any assistance. “My mother used to say, ‘You make your bed, you sleep in it,’” he said. “We have no sympathy for people who travel abroad to take part in the effort to establish a caliphate to undermine and destroy our way of life.” A spokesman for Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has warned that those returning to Australia from Syria will face the law. “People in this group need to know that if they commit a crime, they will be held accountable,” the spokesman said.
The humanitarian organization Save the Children filed a lawsuit against the Australian government in 2023 on behalf of 11 women and 20 children. It said Australia had a “moral and legal responsibility” to its citizens and demanded their repatriation.
However, the Federal Court ruled against Save the Children. The court said the Australian government was not obligated to repatriate them because it had failed to control their detention in Syria.
Australia will take a tougher stance on ISIL relatives after the deadly attack on Bondi Beach at a Jewish festival in Sydney last December, Middle East security analyst Roger Shanahan said.
15 people were killed in the attack. "While people may seem to have abandoned their extremist views, there is concern among the Australian population that they still hold on to them," Shanahan said.
At the height of ISIL's influence, its fighters married women and girls around the world. Now those women and the children born to them are homeless.
Because they married ISIL fighters, the countries concerned have refused to repatriate those women and children born to them. Once they become homeless, they are forced to return to the camps.
At the height of ISIL's influence, its fighters married women and girls around the world. The girls were lured or kidnapped and brought here Now those women and the children born to them are homeless.
At the age of 15, she came to Syria from London to marry an ISIL fighter. After the marriage and the child were born here, her husband died. Britain also revoked his citizenship after this. Although Rose Camp released him, he was unable to leave as he was stateless.
At its peak in 2014, the jihadist organization ISIL had seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
