Canberra, Oct. 31 -- Australia has repatriated 17 citizens detained, since the announcement of the fall of the Islamic State organization (ISIS) in 2019, in Al-Hol and Roj camps in Syria.

The 4 women and 13 children left the camp on Thursday afternoon and crossed the border into Iraq by air to return to Australia.

"The decision to repatriate these women and their children was informed by individual assessments following detailed work by national security agencies," O'Neil said in a statement on Saturday, AFP reported.

As per the media reports, they are the wives, sons and daughters of dead or jailed Islamic State militants.

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