IS orphans to return to Australia: reports

Three Melbourne children whose now-dead parents joined the Islamic State's caliphate are expected to be brought back to Australia within months.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton

Source: AAP

Three Australian children whose father died fighting for Islamic State are expected to be brought back to the country within months.

The children, aged eight to 12, lived with their parents in Melbourne before the family went to Syria in the early days of the conflict, The Australian newspaper reports.

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