On 7 May 2026, news.com.au published a version of this article about Kawsar Abbas (also referred to as Kawsar Ahmad). A photo of Fatma Mallouk was mistakenly used in that publication. Mrs Mallouk is ...

The father of a so-called ISIS bride who was among the latest group of women to return to Australia has defended his daughter, saying that she made a mistake, but she should not be charged.

Police and Counter Terrorism Minister Yasmin Catley has refused to say how much taxpayer money was spent on the alleged “VIP ...

The term “ISIS brides” is used to describe foreign women who travelled to Syria and Iraq between 2014 and 2019 to live under ...

Melbourne grandmother Kawsar Abbas, 53, and her younger daughter Zeinab, 31, will both appear before a Melbourne magistrate court today. They were arrested by the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism ...

Three Australian women known as the “ISIS Brides” have been arrested on slavery- and terrorism-related charges after returning home with their 10 children, most of whom were born in a Syrian detention ...

A fourth woman — known as an “ISIS Bride” — has been charged by counter-terrorism police in Melbourne for being a member of a terrorist organization, as more Australian women who travelled to the ...

"When you are young, you do so many mistakes, you don't get charged [for] those mistakes." ...

Police and Counter Terrorism Minister Yasmin Catley has refused to say how much taxpayer money was spent on the alleged “VIP ...