(AAP) A decision by Belgium to repatriate its child citizens from Syrian refugee camps has prompted fresh calls for Australia to bring home more than 40 children and their mothers.
The European nation made the decision this week to take custody of some women and children of alleged Islamic State fighters, joining a list of other countries that have already done so, including France, Russia and Finland.
Thousands of women and children related to alleged extremists have been held in refugee camps in the Kurdish-controlled part of Syria for about two years.
There are more than 40 Australian children, mostly aged six and under, with their mothers in a camp called Roj in the country’s northeast.
