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return. Three women and eight children - believed to be members of the same family - landed in Melbourne late on Thursday afternoon with another woman and her child expected to arrive in Sydney. The families will
family members and legal representatives for all four women. The return to Australia caps a remarkable saga for the women, all of whom spent more than a decade in the Middle East, firstly under Islamic
families at Roj Camp in eastern Syria, housing people with alleged ties to Islamic State militants, prepare to leave for Damascus as part of a second repatriation effort by Syrian authorities, Friday, April
families in Syria have booked tickets home to Australia, minister says A group of 13 women and children with links to Islamic State (IS) have booked tickets to return home to Australia, the government
expected to return to Australia on Thursday, with all of them apart from a mother and her child bound for Melbourne. The [Australian federal police](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australian-federal-police) said on Wednesday that some
return for assets and information, as well as temporarily shielding some past security officials in exchange for intelligence and to tamp down an insurgency by Assad loyalists on Syria’s coast.  Former Federal