Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in...
<p>US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Australian children held in increasingly “militarised” displacement camps in north-east Syria have been told they will be shot if they try to breach the fence line, as Australia refuses to issue its citizens with passports so they can be repatriated.</p><p>The US has offered to bring the Australians out of the camps on the proviso they have been issued with travel documents or passports, a condition to which Australia has not agreed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/07/australia-government-no-plans-repatriate-citizens-syria-us-warning">Continue reading...</a>
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