Government urged to get Australian families out of Syria camp ahead of Turkey invasion

Save the Children says time is running out to get Australian women and children to safety before a Turkey military offensive in northern Syria.

Women living inside Al-Hawl camp which houses relatives of Islamic State group members, walk inside the site in al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria. Source: AFP

Australia is being urged to bring back more than 60 women and children trapped in the Al-Hawl camp in Syria ahead of a feared Turkey invasion. 

Save the Children CEO Paul Ronalds said Australia had always had a "limited window of opportunity" to repatriate the Australian children and women languishing in camps in northeast Syria.

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