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Australia repatriates families of ISIS fighters from Syria

Headline from Local News 8

By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN Australia has repatriated a group of women and children who were left stranded in refugee camps in northeastern Syria after the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group lost control of the area in 2019.

Local News 8's own description from its feed. We collect headlines and these descriptions, not full articles; read the original reporting below.

Reports & sources

22 articles, oldest first.

  1. WFMZ Allentown

    Report: Australian women, children returning from Syria camp (opens WFMZ Allentown)

    Published

    WFMZ Allentown's feed description

    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

  2. Local News 8

    Australia repatriates families of ISIS fighters from Syria (opens Local News 8)

    Published

    Local News 8's feed description

    By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN Australia has repatriated a group of women and children who were left stranded in refugee camps in northeastern Syria after the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group lost control of the area in 2019.

  3. Winchester Star

    17 Australian women, children return from Syrian camp (opens Winchester Star)

    Published

    Winchester Star's feed description

    Australia says four women and their 13 children who were held in a Syrian camp since the Islamic State group fell in 2019 have become only the second group of

  4. Al Jazeera

    Australia repatriates 17 women and children from Syrian camp (opens Al Jazeera)

    Published

    Al Jazeera's feed description

    An estimated 11,000 foreign children and women remain in the Roj and al-Hol refugee camps in northeastern Syria.

  5. Voice of America

    Australia Repatriates 17 Citizens from Syrian Camps (opens Voice of America)

    Published

    Voice of America's feed description

    Four women and 13 children -- the wives, sons and daughters of vanquished IS fighters -- were repatriated to Australia on Saturday

  6. NBC News

    Australian government repatriates women and children held in Syrian refugee camp (opens NBC News)

    Published

    NBC News's feed description

    The women and children are relatives of dead or jailed fighters from the Islamic State terrorist group.

Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.

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