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Last IS-linked Australian woman to return home: government

al-monitorThursday, June 25, 2026
Last IS-linked Australian woman to return home: government

The last Australian woman stranded in the Middle East over suspected links to the Islamic State group will be allowed to return home, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said on Thursday.Dozens of women and children have been returning to Australian from squalid Syrian detention camps, where they were held for years after the collapse of Islamic State's self-declared caliphate.In many cases the women left Australia to follow husbands who had signed up as jihadist fighters, which has seen them widel

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