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Australian women and children trapped in Syria back in Sydney as Coalition condemns ‘inexcusable’ mission

Children in a ‘wild new world’ but mothers could face continued controls, including ankle monitors and curfews

The Guardian - AU

Australia repatriates Australian women and children from Syrian refugee camp

The Australian government has repatriated four Australian women and their 13 children from a Syrian refugee camp to New South Wales state, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said on Saturday.

Reuters

Australian families arrive back in Sydney from Syrian detention camp

The first group of Australian women and children held in a detention camp in north-east Syria since the fall of the Islamic State group in 2019 has been successfully repatriated.

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'Emotional' homecoming for IS families

Four Australian women and 13 children who have been in the al-Roj camp in Syria since the fall of the terrorist group Islamic State have now arrived in Sydney.

AAP

Report: Australian women, children returning from Syria camp

Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports the first group of Australian women and children held in a Syrian camp since the Islamic State group fell in 2019 is bound for Sydney despite government opponents arguing they pose an unacceptable extremist threat

The Independent UK

Four Australian families held in Syrian detention camps returning to Sydney within days

Four mothers and 13 or more children detained since fall of Islamic State are being repatriated to Australia in federal government operation

The Guardian - AU

Australian women and children returning to Sydney from Syrian detention camp, where they were held after the fall of Islamic State

The first group of Australian women and children held in Syria is returning to Sydney after spending four years languishing in a detention camp.

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Return of Islamic State wives to Australia causes fear for those who escaped the brutality

Mohamed Ibrahim can barely bring himself to recall his run-in with so-called Islamic State fighters — he's terrified about the prospect of their wives returning to Australia.

ABC News

Iran leaders try to link protests to gun attack killing 15

Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests roiling the country to an Islamic State-claimed gun attack on a famous mosque that killed 15 people

The Independent UK

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei calls for unity after shrine attack

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Iranians on Thursday to unite after an attack claimed by Islamic State on a shrine that killed 15 people, saying those behind it "will surely be punished", state television reported.

Reuters

Iran's Khamenei vows revenge after deadly attack on Shi'ite pilgrims

Iran's Supreme Leader vowed on Thursday to retaliate against those threatening the country's security after the massacre of Shi'ite pilgrims, an assault claimed by Islamic State which threatens to inflame tensions amid widespread anti-government protests.

Reuters

Canada police arrest Syria returnee on terrorism-related charges

Canadian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a woman on her return to Canada after 5 years in detention by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for allegedly working for the Islamic State.

Reuters

The Loop: Canada rejects bill to cut ties with British monarchy, Elon Musk visits Twitter HQ, and Rihanna's new music

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happened.

ABC News

Horrific abuse at hands of ISIS leader detailed by US family after brainwashing hundreds

The Kansas native moved to Egypt in 2008 before settling in Syria with her husband who was in a leadership position in the Islamic State

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The Independent UK

2,700-year-old rock carvings discovered in Iraq's Mosul

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire

Daily Mirror

Instagram influencer couple feared detained in Iran as concerns grow over whereabouts

The prominent influencer couple, from New Zealand, travels the world to promote environmental issues and were last heard from in July as they entered Iran from Turkey

Salon

What's the US military doing in Africa?

“Keep your eye on Africa," journalist warns

The Independent UK

Family details horrific abuse at hands of female ISIS leader

Family members of a Kansas native convicted of leading an all-female Islamic State group battalion say they suffered years of horrific abuse at her hands well before she ever became a terrorist

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Taliban kill six Islamic State members in raid in Afghan capital - spokesman

Taliban security forces killed six Islamic State members in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a spokesman for the ruling group's administration said on Saturday.

Radio France Internationale

France allows 40 children, 15 women back from Syrian camps holding IS suspects

France has repatriated 55 people from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists. It is the largest such repatriation in three months and comes a week after a European rights court condemned France for its refusal to return two women detained in Syria.

ABC News

Adelaide boy in possession of extremist material coached others online about how to make bombs, court hears

A 15-year-old will confess to coaching others online about how to build explosives, an Adelaide court hears, as prosecutors ask for the boy to be sentenced as an adult.

France 24

The persecution of the Hazaras: Afghan Shiites targeted by deadly attacks

Afghanistan's Hazara community, a Shiite minority, is regularly targeted by the Afghan branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, which considers Hazaras as heretics. Dozens of people, mostly girls, were killed in an attack on an education centre in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul on September 30. Although the attack…

France 24

France's Lafarge pleads guilty to US charge of supporting terror groups in Syria

French cement maker Lafarge pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a US charge that it made payments to groups designated as terrorists by the United States, including the Islamic State (IS) group, agreeing to pay almost $780 million in fines and forfeitures.

The Independent UK

French firm charged in US with Islamic State group payments

French cement company Lafarge has pleaded guilty to paying $17 million to the Islamic State group so that a plant in Syria could remain open, in a case the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind

Reuters

Lafarge pleads guilty to U.S. charge of supporting Islamic State, to pay $778 million

French cement maker Lafarge pleaded guilty in U.S. court on Tuesday to a charge that it made payments to groups designated as terrorists by the United States, including Islamic State, so the company could keep operating in Syria.

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