In briefA woman who returned to Australia in September 2025 from Lebanon has been charged with terrorism offences. The Australian Federal Police allege she had been held in a displaced persons camp before travelling to Australia.<\/p>\n
A woman who returned to Australia in September has been charged with terrorism offences, according to Australian Federal Police (AFP) deputy commissioner Hilda Sirec.<\/p>\n
A 34-year-old woman is expected to face Melbourne Magistrate’s Court on Thursday afternoon. She faces charges of entering and remaining in a declared conflict zone and being a member of a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n
Both charges carry a maximum penalty of up to 10 years’ imprisonment. <\/p>\n
The woman had been detained in Syria’s al-Hawl camp since 2019, before her return to Australia from Lebanon with another woman on 26 September, Sirec told a media briefing. <\/p>\n
Two groups of women linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State group (IS) and their children have returned to Australia this month after years in Syria’s al-Roj camp.<\/p>\n
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The second group arrived<\/a> in Sydney and Melbourne on Tuesday, but no arrests were made on arrival. <\/p>\n Three women from the first cohort were arrested after landing in Sydney and Melbourne. Two were charged with crimes against humanity, including slavery. The third woman was charged with a terrorism-related crime. <\/p>\n The arrest was part of Operation Kurrajong, a coordinated operation between federal, state and territory counter-terrorism police, and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, investigating Australians alleged to have travelled to Syria and Iraq during the rise of the IS group. <\/p>\n For the latest from SBS News, download our app<\/a> and subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In briefA woman who returned to Australia in September 2025 from Lebanon has been charged with terrorism offences.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-699252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}