Albanese rules out help for second ‘ISIS bride’ group

More Australian women linked to terror radical ISIS look apt to permission Syria within days, but the premier curate insists nary authorities assistance will beryllium provided to the group.

The six women, on with their children and grandchildren, person been surviving successful a campy for erstwhile Islamic State fighters and their families.

Logistics are being negotiated betwixt Kurdish and Syrian officials for the 10-hour thrust from the Al Roj exile campy to Damascus, aggregate media outlets, including the ABC, person reported.

The radical is then apt to committee flights to Australia.

Four women and 9 children arrived successful Sydney and Melbourne earlier successful May aft spending astir two weeks successful the Syrian capital.

Australian Border Force arrested three of the women when they arrived successful Australia.

Two are facing charges relating to slavery, and the different has been charged with joining a terrorist organisation and travelling to a declared struggle zone. All three stay successful custody.

The Australian authorities would supply nary assistance to different radical of so-called ISIS brides, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told ABC Radio connected Wednesday.

“There wasn’t a authorities idiosyncratic connected the level (with the erstwhile cohort), due to the fact that we weren’t providing immoderate assistance, and won’t,” helium said.

“If there person been immoderate breaches of Australian law, they will look the afloat unit of the law, which is what happened to radical when they arrived backmost conscionable a mates of weeks ago.

“The US State Department has been very keen connected radical leaving those camps.”

Opposition migration spokesman Jonno Duniam told Sky News helium believed the authorities had not gone acold capable successful stopping the women returning.

“They are the government. They tin bash something astir it. I don’t bargain the story that they’re running, that they can’t stop them from coming back. They tin and they should,” helium said.

“The information that there was a little of grounds available to authorities to apprehension these radical connected arrival, yet it wasn’t capable to use a temporary travel prohibition oregon revoke a travel papers similar a passport, beggars belief.”

The women are leaving astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Kurdish fighters, known arsenic the Syrian Democratic Forces, are losing ample areas of their territory to Syrian state forces.

Al Roj, successful the northeast extremity of Syria, is 1 of the lone areas it still holds.

A radical of 34 women and children tried to permission successful February but they were turned around.

Source: AAP