Why Australia can no longer avoid responsibility for its citizens held in Syria
- Written by Anthony Billingsley, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
Detention camps in Syria hold about 100,000 Syrian and foreign family members of IS suspects.
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The small number of Australians being held in prison camps in northern Syria has been an ongoing, albeit low-level, challenge for the Australian government. There are believed to be eight Australian fighters for the Islamic State in...
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