(Sydney Morning Herald) Less than three months after she was returned to Australia, one of the so-called “ISIS brides” has been charged after police said they had new evidence she had willingly entered Islamic State territory in 2014 and knew of her husband’s activities with the group.
Mariam Raad, who now lives in Young in the state’s South West Slopes, was arrested on Thursday morning after properties were searched at Young and Parklea in Sydney’s north-west.
Raad, 31, was charged on Thursday with entering and remaining in the “declared zone” of al-Raqqa province in Syria, which was an IS stronghold in 2014.
Police said new evidence had come to light that Raad was aware of the activities of her then-husband Muhammad Zahab, though Raad has previously said she knew nothing of Zahab’s role with Islamic State.
