Australia prepares to resettle Syrian camp children as mothers face charges

Nine children are returning from squalid detention camps where they lived under Islamic State rule, with some born in captivity, requiring psychological support and reintegration assistance.

Across the long arc of a decade, four women and nine children have made their way home to Australia from the detention camps of northeastern Syria — a return that asks the nation to hold, simultaneously, its obligations to child welfare, its commitment to justice, and its vigilance over security. Most of the children were born into captivity after the caliphate's fall, and some have never known the country whose passport they carry. Their arrival is not a resolution but a reckoning: with the choices of adults, the innocence of children, and the limits of a democracy's mercy.

Australia prepares to resettle Syrian camp children as mothers face charges

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