
Australian PM Albanese says no help for ISIL relatives held in Syria camp
Al Jazeera
A group of 34 women and children holding Australian passports is forced to return to Syria’s Roj detention camp for ISIL relatives.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that his government will not repatriate Australian women and children from Syria who have been identified as relatives of suspected ISIL (ISIS) fighters.
“We have a very firm view that we won’t be providing assistance or repatriation,” Albanese told ABC News on Tuesday.
Albanese said that while it is “unfortunate” that children have been affected, Australia is “not providing any support”.
“As my mother would say, you make your bed, you lie in it,” he said.
“We have no sympathy, frankly, for people who travelled overseas in order to participate in what was an attempt to establish a caliphate to undermine and destroy our way of life,” he added.













