A high school robotics team en-route to Turkey is among the thousands of Australians caught up in travel chaos caused by the rekindled war in the Middle East.
More than 100,000 Australians are believed to be in the region, and while many of them live there, others are facing challenges getting home.
Travel plans have been thrown into disarray after half a dozen countries closed their airspace in response to American and Israeli attacks on Iran. Among those impacted is the "Redbacks" robotics team from Sydney private school Barker College, which was in Dubai on its way to a competition in Istanbul, when Iranian missiles began raining down.
