Originally published byThe Guardian Australia
Cohort of 12 children and seven women who were held in a Syrian camp were expected to fly into Sydney and Melbourne on Tuesday
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A plane carrying some of the 19 Australian women and children held in Syria since the defeat of Islamic State has landed in Melbourne, with the remainder due to land in Sydney on Tuesday evening.
The cohort of 12 children and seven women left a Syrian detention camp last week before boarding flights home. Most either left Australia more than a decade ago, or were born in Syria or Iraq after their parents travelled to the so-called caliphate.
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