"MELBOURNE, Australia Australia's government banned an Australian citizen with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group from returning home from a detention camp in Syria, the latest development in the case of fraught repatriation of families of IS fighters. The woman was planning to join another 33 Australians 10 women and 23 children and fly on Monday from Damascus, Syria, to Australia, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Wednesday."
"She was an immigrant who left Australia for Syria sometime between 2013 and 2015, Burke said, declining to elaborate on whether she had children though he generally blamed the parents for the predicaments of their offspring stranded in Syria. "These are horrific situations that have been brought on those children by actions of their parents. They are terrible situations. But they have been brought on entirely by horrific decisions that their parents made," Burke told Australian Broadcasting Corp."
An Australian citizen with alleged ties to the Islamic State was barred from returning to Australia under a temporary exclusion order. The woman intended to join 33 Australians — 10 women and 23 children — and fly from Damascus to Australia, but Syrian authorities returned the group to the Roj detention camp because of unspecified procedural problems. The exclusion order was issued Monday and legal representatives received paperwork on Wednesday. The woman left Australia for Syria between 2013 and 2015. Temporary exclusion orders, introduced in 2019, can prevent high-risk citizens returning for up to two years and cannot be issued for children under 14.
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