28 August 2026

Australian ISIS bride says motherhood turned her against extremist ideology as she fights to be released from jail

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Zeinab Ahmad was arrested and charged with slavery offences upon her return to Australia with other family members of former Islamic State fighters in May after years of languishing in a Syrian ...

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