Aussie ISIS bride Suhayra Aden and her two children deported to New Zealand

An Australian jihadi bride from Melbourne who ran away to join ISIS has been stripped of her citizenship and will now leave Australia with her two children.

An Aussie ISIS bride stripped of her Australian citizenship after moving to Syria to join the terror group six years ago will now move to New Zealand with her two children.

The 26-year-old terror suspect Suhayra Aden left her Melbourne home in 2014 to join Islamic State in Syria where she was twice married to Swedish fighters, both of whom were killed in fighting.

The Australian-NZ dual citizen, who moved to Australia when she was six years old, had three children, one of whom died in Syria of pneumonia.

In 2019 while being held in the notorious refugee camp Al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria she applied to be returned to her Melbourne home but the Federal Government stripped her of her citizenship because of her links to ISIS and perceived threat to national security.

Aden and her two children, now aged five and two years, had been stateless since being held in detention in Turkey, where they were caught on the border earlier this year, before New Zealand stepped in and agreed to repatriation.

“New Zealand has not taken this step lightly,” Kiwi PM Jacinda Ardern said after a Cabinet meeting in Wellington. “We have taken into account our international responsibilities as well as the details of this particular case, including the fact that children are involved. “They are not Turkey’s responsibility, and with Australia refusing to accept the family, that makes them ours.”

When she left for the war zone she travelled on an Australian passport.

Earlier this year Ms Ardern said Australia’s decision was wrong and the country was abdicating its responsibilities by “unilaterally” cancelling the citizenship of the woman who had not lived in New Zealand since she was six years old.

Turkish authorities confirmed the woman was wanted on an Interpol ‘blue notice’ and was not facing any actual criminal charges.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Picture: Getty

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he would not repatriate Aden, whom he described as an “enemy” of the country, because his job was to “put Australia’s national security interests first” and that those who joined terrorist organisations should not enjoy the privileges of citizenship.

The Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand praised the move by their prime.

“Together, as New Zealanders, we are obligated to provide a chance for a new life for this family to integrate and to flourish in society. Quality, long-term solutions are never simple, and it takes time an effort to raise children and rebuild lives.”

Aden was born in Auckland to a Somalian refugee family who had become naturalised New Zealanders before migrating to Australia and all receiving citizenship.

She would likely to subjected now to control orders in New Zealand as a former ISIS bride.