Australian Women Linked to 'ISIS' Charged with Holding 'Enslaved Woman' in Syria

SadaNews - Australian police announced on Friday that two Australian women who traveled to Syria in 2014 to support ISIS have been charged with 'holding an enslaved woman.'

The police explained that the two women, who went to Syria in 2014 to join ISIS, 'knowingly held an enslaved woman in their home.' They returned to Australia on Thursday evening after 10 years in the al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria, where they had been stranded since the fall of the organization. They were arrested immediately upon landing on a Qatar Airways flight at Melbourne International Airport.

The police accuse the two women, a mother and her daughter aged 53 and 31, of committing 'crimes against humanity' while living under ISIS rule.

Australian police stated that the mother was 'complicit in purchasing an enslaved woman for $10,000.' Her daughter 'knowingly held an enslaved woman in her residence.'

Hundreds of women from Western countries traveled to the Middle East with the rise of ISIS in the early 2010s, often accompanying husbands who joined the group as fighters.

Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other countries continue to struggle with how to deal with their citizens stranded after the collapse of the organization.