All Australians taken out of Syrian detention camp in ‘bittersweet’ move

(Age) All the Australian women and children captured after the fall of Islamic State in Syria last year have now been taken out of the squalid al-Hawl camp, with local authorities saying they have been moved to another camp.

A group was removed from the camp last week, but overnight the 15 remaining Australian women and 28 children were also taken away by authorities, said family advocate Kamalle Dabboussy after speaking to several sources inside the camp. It appears to be part of a broader move of women to another detention camp, Roj, which is about 100 kilometres away.

Mr Dabboussy said his daughter, Mariam, and her three children were among those who were moved overnight (Australian time) though he had not heard directly from her.

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