ISIS brides sneak out of Syria and are smuggled back into Australia
A group of six ISIS brides and their Syrian-born children have quietly slipped back into Australia after fleeing war-torn Syria, triggering a wave of fury from terror victims.
The women, who left Australia years ago to live in Islamic State-controlled territories, were detained in Beirut by Lebanese border authorities for carrying invalid visas and lacking entry records.
Despite this, they were later issued Australian passports following DNA testing and security checks conducted by Australian officials.
Security agencies had been monitoring the group for months while they were still in Syria, anticipating that some would attempt to return independently.
The Albanese government insists it played no role in helping the women flee Syria, but critics say the operation reeks of secrecy.
In Parliament last month, the Opposition grilled the government over reports that ISIS brides were being repatriated with official assistance.
A group of six ISIS brides and their children have fled Syria, and returned to Australia
Opposition Deputy Leader Sussan Ley slammed the government's lack of transparency.
'Australians expect strong borders, but under Labor it's secrecy at the expense of security,' she said.
The Opposition has demanded the government reveal where the group is now living.
'This is nothing short of a dereliction of duty by the Albanese Labor Government. These are people who willingly travelled to a war zone and aligned themselves with one of the most barbaric terrorist organisations in history,' Ley said.
'Now they appear to have returned secretly, raising fundamental questions about how and why they were allowed back in. Australians deserve answers.'
The Australian government was monitoring them
The Opposition has called on the Albanese Government to answer where the group is living
'Our agencies have been monitoring these individuals for some time.'
The return has sparked concern among Assyrian Christian communities, many of whom were victims of ISIS atrocities.
'Obviously there are members of our community who are victims of ISIS, and ISIS brides aided their men to perpetrate crimes against the Assyrians,' said Dennis Suro, President of The Young Assyrians.
Sussan Ley echoed those concerns.
'Assyrian Christian Australians, victims of ISIS themselves, have been ignored once again. Their communities may now be forced to live alongside those who chose to support the very terrorists who inflicted such horrors upon them,' she said.
The controversy follows a similar backlash in 2022, when Western Sydney leaders voiced anger over the return of ISIS brides, accusing the government of treating their suburbs as a 'dumping ground' for former Islamic State affiliates.
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Performing a search on ISIS brides in Syria, who say soon they will be free and ISIS will rise again.
ISIS brides in al-Hol terrorist prison in Syria, who say soon they will be free and we will be locked up.
Foreign wives of former ISIS fighters are held in the camps Al Roj and Al Hol (pictured) in Syria
Foreign wives of former ISIS fighters are held in the camp at Al Hol (pictured) in Syria
Al-Roj is home to around 2,600 detainees from 55 countries, many of them ISIS brides and their children (pictured, a woman in the al-Hol camp in Syria's northeast)
Women and children at the al-Roj detention camp in northeast Syria
These women are the wives and widows of Islamic State fighters
The women have been living in the camp in North East Syria since ISIS was defeated in March 2019
Women and children were removed from the al-Roj camp near the Iraqi border, and relocated to Sydney
In 2022, the Albanese government carried out a rescue plan to bring home 16 women and 42 children who were families of IS members
ISIS terrorists from the squalid camps may present a threat to national security
Australian ISIS brides in Syrian refugee camps were returned home in a secret operation
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