Australia will not repatriate its citizens with links to Islamic State members, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the national broadcaster Tuesday, with blunt advice to families stranded in Syria: “If you make your bed, you lie in it.”
His comments followed reports that 34 Australian women and children were turned back by Syrian authorities after they had left a Syrian detention camp housing ISIS militants and their families with the aim of returning to Australia via the Syrian capital, Damascus.
The 11 families had left the Al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria for Damascus when they were contacted by Syrian officials who told them the procedures for their departure were incomplete and they could not…