Thirty four Australians released from Syrian camp holding Daesh affiliated families

Thirty four Australians released from Syrian camp holding Daesh affiliated families
Members of Syria's Kurdish Internal Security Police Force and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces stand guard during a joint security operation at Camp Roj, in the countryside near al-Malikiyah in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province, Syria. (AFP)
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Updated 16 February 2026
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Thirty four Australians released from Syrian camp holding Daesh affiliated families

Thirty four Australians released from Syrian camp holding Daesh affiliated families
  • Roj camp holds more than 2,000 people from 40 ⁠different nationalities, the majority of ‌them women ‌and children

ROJ CAMP: Syrian Kurdish forces on Monday released 34 Australians from a camp ​holding families of suspected Daesh militants in northern Syria, saying they would be flown to Australia from Damascus.
Hukmiya Mohamed, a co-director of Roj camp, told Reuters that the ‌34 Australians ‌had been ​released ‌to ⁠members ​of their families ⁠who had come to Syria for the release. They were put on small buses for Damascus.
Roj camp holds more than 2,000 people from 40 ⁠different nationalities, the majority of ‌them women ‌and children.
Thousands of ​people believed ‌to be linked to Daesh militants have been held at Roj and a second camp, Al-Hol, since the militant group was driven ‌from its final territorial foothold in Syria in 2019.
Syrian ⁠government ⁠forces seized swathes of northern Syria from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in January, before agreeing a ceasefire on January 29.
The US military last week completed a mission to transfer 5,700 adult male Daesh detainees from Syria to ​Iraq.