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Sydney mayors say repatriated families of IS fighters 'turned their backs' on Australia

Three mayors from south-western Sydney call for a meeting with the Prime Minister, saying they were not consulted about the families of fighters for the so-called Islamic State being resettled in their communities.

ABC News

Officials: US aid worker shot dead in Baghdad in rare attack

Two police officials say assailants shot dead an American aid worker in Baghdad in a rare killing of a foreigner in the Iraqi capital in recent years, The man was shot as he drove through the capital's central Karrada district on the east bank of the Tigris River but the…

The Independent UK

Record number of foreigners repatriated from IS camps in Syria this year

Repatriations of foreign woman and children affiliated to Islamic State from detention camps in northeast Syria hit a record high in 2022, Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday.

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U.S. sanctions South African Islamic State-affiliated firms

The U.S. has imposed its second round of sanctions in less than a week on people and firms in Africa who it says have provided financial or material support to the Islamic State group

The Independent UK

Group Warns of Rampant Violence in Syria Camp of ISIS Families

A sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the ISIS group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawlessness, an international aids group said Monday. Doctors Without Borders also said that countries with citizens held in the detention center of al-Hol in Syria’s…

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Group warns of rampant violence in Syria camp of IS families

An international aid group is warning that a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria that houses tens of thousands of women and children linked to the extremist Islamic State group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawless

The Independent UK

COP27: Host resort town gives Egypt tight grip over protests

Egypt is touting its efforts to make Sharm el-Sheikh a more eco-friendly tourist destination as this year’s United Nations climate summit approaches

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Bitter debate erupts over repatriation of Australian families from Syrian detention camps

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil accuses the opposition of hypocrisy over the repatriation of Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps.

ABC News

Vic Libs reject 'ISIS brides' resettlement

Australian women and children remain in Syrian camps, but the Victorian coalition has objected to their resettlement on security grounds.

AAP

Victorian opposition objects to repatriation of ‘so-called Isis brides’, as election campaign begins

Matthew Guy says allowing families of fighters to resettle from Syria could compromise the safety of Victorians

The Guardian - AU

IS family repatriation 'not taken lightly'

The government has defended its decision to repatriate Australian women and children from Syria with links to Islamic State.

AAP

Gunman who attacked holy shrine in Iran dies from injuries

Iranian media say the gunman who killed 15 people at a major Shiite holy site in southern Iran earlier this week has died

The Independent UK

'Willing to do whatever is asked': Women repatriated from Syria regret trouble caused

The four Australian women, who have come home from a Syrian detention camp, say they are willing to do whatever it takes to keep the community safe.

ABC News

'Emotional' homecoming for IS families

Four Australian women and 13 children who have been in the al-Roj camp in Syria since the fall of the terrorist group Islamic State have now arrived in Sydney.

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Australian women and children returning to Sydney from Syrian detention camp, where they were held after the fall of Islamic State

The first group of Australian women and children held in Syria is returning to Sydney after spending four years languishing in a detention camp.

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Return of Islamic State wives to Australia causes fear for those who escaped the brutality

Mohamed Ibrahim can barely bring himself to recall his run-in with so-called Islamic State fighters — he's terrified about the prospect of their wives returning to Australia.

The Independent UK

Iran leaders try to link protests to gun attack killing 15

Iran’s supreme leader and its president have tried to link the nationwide protests roiling the country to an Islamic State-claimed gun attack on a famous mosque that killed 15 people

The Independent UK

2,700-year-old rock carvings discovered in Iraq's Mosul

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees, dating back to the Assyrian Empire

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The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees

The question of whether social media firms should be responsible for content recommended to users is set to be re-examined – and not before time

Radio France Internationale

France allows 40 children, 15 women back from Syrian camps holding IS suspects

France has repatriated 55 people from camps in Syria holding family members of suspected Islamic State jihadists. It is the largest such repatriation in three months and comes a week after a European rights court condemned France for its refusal to return two women detained in Syria.

France 24

The persecution of the Hazaras: Afghan Shiites targeted by deadly attacks

Afghanistan's Hazara community, a Shiite minority, is regularly targeted by the Afghan branch of the Islamic State (IS) group, which considers Hazaras as heretics. Dozens of people, mostly girls, were killed in an attack on an education centre in a Shiite neighbourhood of Kabul on September 30. Although the attack…

France 24

France's Lafarge pleads guilty to US charge of supporting terror groups in Syria

French cement maker Lafarge pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a US charge that it made payments to groups designated as terrorists by the United States, including the Islamic State (IS) group, agreeing to pay almost $780 million in fines and forfeitures.

The Independent UK

6 on trial in Vienna over links to gunman in 2020 attack

Six men have gone on trial in Vienna over alleged links to a sympathizer of the Islamic State group who carried out a deadly shooting in the Austrian capital in 2020

The Guardian - UK

‘They tried to wipe us out’: Kurds shelled as Iran seeks scapegoats for unrest

Exiled Kurdish forces in Iraq feel abandoned by west and say they need weapons like in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

First British woman and her child repatriated to UK from Syrian camp

Woman, said to have been trafficked, is only adult allowed back since end of Islamic State ground war

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