IS-linked women and children return to Australia; some face charges

Thirteen individuals, including nine children, are being repatriated from detention camps in Syria, with potential legal consequences for some upon return.

On a May morning, thirteen people — four women and nine children — made the long journey home to Australia from detention camps in northeastern Syria, where they had lived in the shadow of the Islamic State's collapse. Their return was neither simple nor celebratory: some of the women faced criminal charges upon landing, while the children, who had no say in the lives that had carried them to Syria, faced the quieter challenge of beginning again. Australia, like many nations before it, was learning that the end of a territorial caliphate does not resolve the human questions it leaves behind —

IS-linked women and children return to Australia; some face charges

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