(ABC-Australia) The first group of Australian women and children held in a detention camp in north-east Syria since the fall of the Islamic State (IS) group in 2019 is en route to Sydney.
The ABC can reveal four women and 13 children were taken from the camp on Thursday afternoon and made the 30-kilometre trip to the Iraq border before boarding a plane home.
It is likely to be the first step in repatriating the entire cohort of Australian citizens detained in the war-torn country.
France last week removed 40 women and 15 children from the camps, joining more than 25 countries that had repatriated their citizens since the fall of the IS in early 2019.
(Date based on Australia time)
