His situation highlights the challenge for the Morrison government faces after being pressured to repatriate Australian ISIS extremists for prosecution. There are more than 2,500 displaced children from families with perceived or actual associations with ISIS living in camps in North East Syria, Save the Children states. Masri claimed he travelling to Syria not as a terrorist but as an inquisitive albeit misguided person seeking to learn more about Islam. Alam joined Islamic State just four weeks after it declared its so-called caliphate in 2014. Smoke rises after an air strike during fighting between members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Raqqa, Syria in 2017

Source: Daily Mail March 31, 2019 23:14 UTC