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Community leader working to repatriate families with alleged terror links speaks out

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An Australian doctor, who has travelled to Syria to try to bring home a group of women and children being held in an IS-group detention camp, has appealed for the government to help their return. Speaking with SBS News, Dr Jamal Rifi has also confirmed that the Department of Foreign Affairs has issued a passport for an Australian man, caught up in the system as a child, who is now believed to be lost in the Iraqi prison system.
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