Australian ISIS bride fleeing Syria says terrorist Khaled Sharrouf’s surviving children are alive in Syria
An Australian ISIS bride fleeing the last stronghold of the defeated Islamists extremists in Syria has said the surviving children of slain terrorist Khaled Sharrouf are alive.
An Australian ISIS bride fleeing the last stronghold of the defeated Islamists extremists in Syria has said the children of slain terrorist Khaled Sharrouf are alive.
Zehra Duman, who made her name recruiting woman to the Caliphate hell hole, was interviewed by an aid worker last week, the ABC reported.
Duman, wearing a niqab, was pictured with aid workers while clutching a baby and a plastic bag of bread, said she was the best friend of Sharrouf’s wife Tara Nettleton.
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Ms Nettleton died from medical complications in 2015, while Sharrouf and his two eldest children died in a 2017 air strike.
The dead couple’s remaining children - daughters aged 17 and 16 and a nine-year-old son - are believed to be trapped in Baghuz, the last small pocket of Syria ISIS still control.
“They’re fine and they’re alive … I don’t know if they’re going to leave or not, I haven’t kept in contact with them so I don’t know,” she said.
The Australian government confirmed last night it could follow the British government’s lead, which will strip ISIS bride Shamima Begum, 19, of her citizenship so she can’t return to the UK
A government spokeswoman said Australian officials did not facilitate the safe passage of people out of the conflict zones.
“The Government is determined to deal with these people as far from our shores as possible and ensure that any who do return do so with forewarning and into the hands of appropriate agencies.”
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