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returning from Syria, minister says Australian police say that some members of a group of Australian women and children due to arrive in the country from Syria imminently will be arrested
women with alleged ties to Islamic State group militants will be arrested and face criminal investigations if they return from Syria
returned to Australia with the support of their families. Three of the women were arrested and charged. Tinkler called for the remaining Australian woman in Syria
women began travelling to Syria to marry members of ISIL in 2012, with some allegedly taken against their will. At the [height of its power](/news/2019/3/23/anatomy-of-a-caliphate-the-rise-and-fall-of-isil) in 2015, ISIL controlled territory across Syria and Iraq
women with links to the Islamic State (IS) group have been formally charged after returning home from Syria. Kawsar Abbas, 53 and her daughter Zeinab Ahmed, 31 will appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday
arrested at Melbourne airport and charged with offences of enslavement and using a slave. Human rights activist Robert Van Aalst, who helped the women and children return to Australia from Syria
Syria and that she did not want to return to Australia for fear of being arrested and having her child taken from her. The group of 13 are part of a larger cohort
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 of the women would
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 has said. Home
return. “They’ll face the same consequences as the first group,” the federal minister told the ABC on Friday. The Australians are the wives, widows and children of jailed or dead [Islamic State](https://www.theguardian.com
arrest and possible charges when they arrived in Australia. She said that AFP officers had been investigating the women since 2015, and had also collected evidence from [Syria](https://www.theguardian.com/world/syria) as part of their
arrested or charged. The women arrived with eight children. Safar was charged in [Sydney](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/sydney) with allegedly entering a declared conflict zone and joining Islamic state. Safar was expected to face Downing Centre
return Al-Aryan was a judicial adviser during the early years of Syria’s uprising, which began in March 2011, as protests intensified and the state increasingly relied on security-based rule
arrest, according to court documents.  Former Federal
arrested](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/droi/dv/droi_20090831_8uygsit89_/droi_20090831_8uygsit89_en.pdf) in the ensuing security crackdown. Choghtal began looking for ways to leave the country. "If I had not left China, I would have died in prison," he says. "They forced