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News & Current Events May 7, 2026 at 12:52 PM

Australian women returning from Syria arrested on suspicion of slavery, terrorism

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Australian women returning from Syria arrested on suspicion of slavery, terrorism
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Australian women returning from Syria arrested on suspicion of slavery, terrorism
Three Australian women have been arrested on suspicion of slavery and terrorism charges after they returned from Syria

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seiryuu-abi 4 days ago +370
>”One of the women I spoke to said that what she missed the most was coffee. She said she couldn't wait to get to Little Collins Street in Melbourne to have a coffee again,” she added. Something about this just makes my blood boil. Literally in the article before this part it says some of the worst crimes (regarding slavery) were enacted by women who joined the Islamic State. Forget your Little Collins Street coffee. I’ve also read other articles that talk about Syrian women. I can understand how Syrian women got duped before ISIS came into power, especially when there were like tens of groups fighting at the time and it was chaos everywhere. Often times people in Syria were constantly migrating. Some people literally had no documentation left on them so they were falsely assumed to be associated with ISIS because their houses had been bombed so many times and one of those times they lost their papers. But women who packed up and literally chose to go there after knowing what the IS truly was are just evil. There is no explanation for how that even happened on accident.
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blaze92x45 3 days ago +51
They can stay in Israel if they're so desperate to fight for the IDF
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4us7 1 day ago +13
Im not confident most of them will get any real punishment. Get ready for a huge amount of responsibility deflection, including how they were coerced, have no choice, how it wasn't their fault, how they couldn't have known, and so on. NGOs will be lining up to support their case so resources wont be a problem. The real issue is no one can contest any of their sob stories collaborations. Im not confident that Australia's soft criminal system will be effective in prosecuting most of them.
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hyper_espace 4 days ago +203
These groups enslaved the yazidi for these women to use them as slave maids and let their terrorist husbands r*** and kill their the victims, including children. That's genocide, they committed crime against humanity... Unfortunately I don't expect much from the Australian justice system. In Europe, the terrorist brides that came back mostly avoided justice for the genocide they participated in.
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4us7 1 day ago +6
This. Get ready for a huge amount of responsibility deflection, including how they were coerced, have no choice, how it wasn't their fault, how they couldn't have known, and so on. NGOs will be lining up to support their case, so resources won't be a problem for them. The real issue is that no one can contest any of their sob stories collaborations.
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Spectralcolors78 4 days ago +228
What did they think was going to happen? "Welcome Back! How was the Terrorist  Camp? Care for a snack?" 
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themiro 4 days ago +64
it says they were willing to take the hit if their children could be in australia
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waitmyhonor 3 days ago +10
You thought people would read the article?
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Philostronomer 2 days ago -10
Their children should be deported as well.
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hammerofwar000 2 days ago +17
No, they need a f*** ton of therapy and help so they can be better then their shit evil parents.
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Philostronomer 1 day ago -10
They can do that in Syria where they're not a threat to innocent Aussies.
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hammerofwar000 1 day ago +9
They’re just kids mate and, as an Aussie, I think I’ve got more say than some random North American. 
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MarkCelery78 2 days ago -15
You can’t deradicalize them. People have died being stupid enough to have tried
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hammerofwar000 1 day ago +2
Thank you internet rando for your all knowing take on the matter. I’ll let people who know what their doing take over.
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MarkCelery78 1 day ago +3
People who know got themselves killed in London a few years back when they brought what they thought was a rehabilitated terrorist to their seminar. He showed them the error of their ways by murdering 2 of them before going on an attacking spree on the bridge before being killed himself. “Since Khan was considered a "success story" for a Cambridge University rehabilitation programme,[1][2] and was featured as a case study by the University,[3] he was attending an offender rehabilitation conference in Fishmongers' Hall. He threatened to detonate what turned out to be a fake suicide vest and started attacking people with two knives taped to his wrists, killing two of the conference participants by stabbing them in the chest”
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hammerofwar000 1 day ago +4
Ah yes, let’s compare a convicted 28 year old terrorist organiser in Britain to children that have been living in a Syrain refugee camp for the last 6-7 years.
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Yeeeoow 2 days ago +1
Jesus christ.
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afoxboy 2 days ago -13
\^ this comment brought to u by mossad
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lostroadrunner22 4 days ago +1
Did she catch any slaves?
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Senanb 21 hr ago +4
She joined Isis. A lot of the times they helped their husbands choose which Yazidi slave they wanted to keep for domestic and sexual tasks...
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Fardrengi 4 days ago +99
It’s still wild to me that women willingly left to ISIS in some romanticized fantasy of being a terrorist’s wife under Sharia law. Someone once tried to compare them to the women that fall in love with criminal pen pals, but I think this is a completely different level of warped decision making. 
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Frosty-Stand5752 3 days ago +24
Who were these women? I can't understand, were they like Arab Australians with cultural ties tot he region or were they European or other descent and just liked the idea?
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Bernyfromtheclouds 3 days ago +37
Their families migrated to Australia from the middle east, they were Islamists before they left.
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Frosty-Stand5752 3 days ago +14
Their parents were or were they radicalized domestically?
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Bernyfromtheclouds 3 days ago +43
Yes their parents were, two of the women travelled with their father, mother and brother to join ISIS, while there they enslaved two young girls aged 11 and 13 at the time. These people are the worst of the worst. They were not radicalised in Australia they were already radicals.
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Frosty-Stand5752 3 days ago +16
This is very interesting- it says many are radicalized domestically as second generation. [https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/land-power-forum/non-religious-radicalisation-selfie-generation-terrorists](https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/library/land-power-forum/non-religious-radicalisation-selfie-generation-terrorists)
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Bernyfromtheclouds 3 days ago +16
Yes sadly this is very common with the second generations they haven't gone through what their parents did and why their parents migrated from war torn places.
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Zubon102 4 days ago +169
It's absolutely evil what these people did to those poor kidnapped Yazidi girls. It makes me sad that slavery still exists in this world. Australia just had their worst terror attack ever where 15 members of the Jewish community were killed by an extremist, so it's obvious that there is a lot of reluctance from many people to actively help these people enter the country. Many of these people made a choice as adults to leave Australia and join a terrorist group that was actively fighting Australia at that time. If they are citizens, they must be allowed in. And their young children should be treated as victims. But they must face the full brunt of the law.
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Neither-Scarcity-235 4 days ago +71
Nope they should be stripped of their citizenship
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Liamface 2 days ago +16
I don’t think that’s fair because they’re essentially escaping justice. They’re Australian citizens, if our people are going to become terrorists we should be responsible and jail them.
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lostroadrunner22 4 days ago -32
Shes already Australian, how much more can you do to someone! (kidding people)
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4us7 1 day ago +5
Life imprisonment without parole is the only acceptable sentence for those who joined a maniacal regime hostile to Australia. Remember, if ISIS have had their way, Australians along with the rest of the world, will be the ones enslaved by them.
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Raammson 4 days ago +21
The baseline power of a sovereign nation is the ability to decide the terms of citizenship who is and isn’t a part of the nation and what grants and revokes that citizenship. Frankly I wouldn’t want slavers back but that’s just me. Then again it’s good policy to make sure your citizens aren’t running around committing crimes against humanity without supervision. 
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mritoday 3 days ago +14
You can't really strip someone of citizenship if it makes them stateless. Your criminals, your problem, basically.
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Grand_Sock_1303 2 days ago +3
Exactly. It would be great to revoke citizenship for all murderers, rapists and pedos but which country is going to take them.
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Vegetable_Good6866 3 days ago +30
Their husbands raped young Yazidi girls and they knew and didn't care.
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22stanmanplanjam11 4 days ago +79
Australia’s going to regret bringing them back. These women join ISIS to carry the children of a terrorist and enslave Yazidi women, their terrorist husband dies, and then they suddenly want to return to their western countries with all of his kids. When they commit a terrorist attack on Australian soil they’ll just say it was justified blowback for killing their fathers.
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Liamface 2 days ago +11
We shouldn’t regret bringing them back. They’re our citizens, we’re responsible for them. They should be punished. They deserve life in prison.
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Vegetable_Good6866 3 days ago +17
They are being arrested. I read a quote from an Australian minister who said there are huge legal obstacles to blocking citizens from returning to country best they can do is arrest them when they arrive and hold them accountable for any crimes they committed. Which Australia is doing.  I don't like the idea of stripping people of citizenship. Begum in UK is the definition of a terrorist PoS but after stripping her of citizenship, now the UK is talking about stripping citizenship of anybody who supports Iran in war with US. The UK isn't even f****** involved in that war. The slippery slope is real.
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22stanmanplanjam11 3 days ago -12
The women are being arrested but they're not the ones who are going to plot any terrorist attacks.
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Vegetable_Good6866 3 days ago -3
 Children are innocent you can't punish them for things they haven't done or you create the monsters you fear. There is still hope for them if they are showed love and compassion.
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22stanmanplanjam11 3 days ago +7
There’s a picture of one of the kids holding a severed head after an IS attack, he’s in his late teens or early 20s now. One of the women already had her charges dropped. Not allowing the Islamic State members and their kids back to Australia wouldn’t be a punishment. Their entire lives were in Syria, that’s where the kids were born and that’s where their home is. It didn’t stop being their home just because their Islamic State member father died waging jihad.
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plain_handle 4 days ago +42
More concerning were the crowd of c****** islamic males who turned in black (ISIS colours) to welcome them and rush them away.
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Vegetable_Good6866 3 days ago +28
Female ISIS supporters were just as bad as the males. There was an entire organization of armed women who acted as morality police for other women.
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Dezert_Roze 3 days ago +25
100% … The Australian Channel Ten news reporter said they gut punched a female reporter https://youtu.be/WLk7dgYqjNk?si=PhuaWpoRRCjjM3_m
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Lingonberry_Born 1 day ago +9
In other footage I heard men calling reporters “s****”
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gokurakumaru 3 days ago +14
These are some of the "moderate" muslims we're supposed to be happy to have in our community and who according to [Tony Burke shouldn't have to assimilate because we "want people for who they are"](https://youtu.be/_iTJg7nuk28?t=303). Yeah, nah. We only want people who want to move here because they love Australian values *as they are*, not people who want to move here, change the population demographics and then undermine those values. And Australia is letting the latter group move in unfettered.
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Splinterfight 2 days ago +8
Plenty of Muslims in the pub sinking beers watching cricket. I track on that’s who he’s talking about
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General_Laugh8578 3 days ago +15
It's quite baffling how many of these IS women who converted (knowing about IS) have received weak or non-existent sentences for what should be seen as a betrayal against their own countries. A lot of leniency. ISIS wanted to dominate the entire world, and they were absolutely fine with it.
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Big-Platypus-9684 2 days ago +4
This will be a good test of what justice means in Australia.
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Standard-Image-8826 1 day ago +1
lol western countries don't have justice anymore
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Original-Measurement 1 day ago +2
>The four women and nine children, who have spent years in [Roj Camp](https://apnews.com/article/syria-sdf-islamic-state-prisons-alhol-roj-5d3ada50c29956383b92fd03c77f4701) in the Syrian desert, landed on two Qatar Airways flights from Doha Thursday My main concern is what's going on with the fourth woman, why isn't she arrested?
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Sal_77 23 hr ago +1
Welcome to Australia now off to the wood chipper you and everyone else who subscribed to them
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MarkCelery78 2 days ago +1
Wait Labor told us they weren’t coming at all, that the government wouldn’t assist them and these people weren’t guilty of anything 😭😭😭
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Aintyodad 2 days ago -1
Is it funny to anyone else that the same people who tear down statues of James cook or the like because they were slavers and colonizers have now spoken in favour of bringing actual slavers into the country?
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currentlyquang 1 day ago +4
Who are these people? Are there actual statements from these same people? I would love to hear.
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VibrantGypsyDildo 4 days ago -20
Sometimes the criminal law is applied to both genders.
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WestcoastRa 4 days ago -5
So what exactly was going on! Lord!
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