https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-07/isis-brides-families-land-in-melbourne-sy...





By correspondent Bridget Rollason, Leonie Thorne, Judd Boaz and Melissa Brown

Topic:   Federal Government

4h ago


In short:


More than a dozen women and children with links to former ISIS fighters have begun arriving in Australia, nearly two weeks after leaving a refugee camp in Syria.

Police have detained three women who arrived in Melbourne and Sydney via Doha this evening.

The group had been held in the Al Roj camp in north-eastern Syria for several years.



A woman linked to ISIS is facing a terrorism charge and two others are accused of slavery offences after returning to Australia on Thursday night from Doha.

The women were arrested at Sydney and Melbourne airports, two weeks after they left a refugee camp in Syria.

The women were part of a group with links to the collapsed Islamic State who spent more than six years in refugee camps.

One group touched down at Melbourne Airport shortly before 5:30pm this evening, while a woman and her child landed in Sydney on a separate flight about 15 minutes later.

The two women arrested in Melbourne are believed to be 53-year-old Kawsar Abbas and 31-year-old Zeinab Ahmed, while the woman arrested in Sydney is believed to be 32-year-old Janai Safar.


Trio face multiple charges including crimes against humanity
AFP Assistant Commissioner Counter Terrorism Stephen Nutt held a press conference in Canberra, announcing the women arrested in Melbourne would be charged with crimes against humanity, including enslavement.

The woman believed to be Kawsar Abbas was also accused of slave trading.

"Both offences carry a maximum penalty of 25 years imprisonment," he said.

Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt said a 32-year-old woman arrested in Sydney would be charged with being a member of a terrorist organisation and entering or remaining in a declared area.

The charges carry maximum 10-year prison terms.

He said he expected all three women would appear in courts in Melbourne and Sydney as early as tomorrow.

Assistant Commissioner Nutt said the offences were alleged to have occurred in Syria, with the police operation stretching back to 2015.

"I'm not going to talk in any specific detail about any case because the matters are before the court," he said.

He did not comment on any concerns about the community's reaction to the group returning to Australia.

"All I can say is safety of the community is the number one priority for all agencies involved," he said.

Assistant Commissioner Nutt would not comment on the children who were accompanying the women on the flights to Australia.

Baronvonrort wrote on May 7^th, 2026 at 10:32pm:



They aided an enemy in a time of war -

that is treason.    

Why are there unassimilating, culturally hostile immigrants in Wester9n countries?  By the tens of million???