<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A group of so-called ISIS brides and their children left a camp in northern Syria today, hoping to return to Australia following a failed repatriation attempt earlier this year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Four women and nine children have been issued passports by the federal government before they left the dire conditions at Syria's Al-Roj camp for what they hope is the final time.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The camp's co-ordinator Lana Hussein said there is a security procedure that takes up to 72 hours before they are deported.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/rsl-sub-branch-targeted-by-candals-on-anzac-day/c56dd29c-a622-48d5-a8ca-71fa5d59d043"><strong><span>'Disgraceful': Anzac Day RSL graffiti shocks veterans</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Less than three months ago the entire group of 34 Australians citizens at the camp tried to come home but their escape was foiled by Syrian government forces.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It appears that this time they have overcome that hurdle.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The co-ordination was perfect," Al-Roj camp director Hakmiyeh Ibrahim told the ABC through a translator.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/australian-women-and-children-leave-syrian-camp-hoping-to-return-home/794201a6-a46d-41d5-8f36-84bc291a95b5" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It was done between us and the Syrian Government to be able to fly back these families to their country."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Australian government is required to issue passports to its citizens.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>This group is no exception but the government says assistance to bring them back stopped there. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/alleged-arson-attack-on-melbourne-cbd-bar/30288fb0-e0a9-444f-9d8d-cd1a93e1aad4"><strong><span>Landmark bar attacked by arsonists</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The Australian government is not repatriating those people from Syria," Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Only one of the women who has been living at the Syrian camp has been temporarily banned from entering Australia.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>No other exclusion orders have been issued. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Tony Burke himself has said 'We do not want them here'," Shadow Home Affairs Minister Jonno Duniam said. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"You are in government, you can do something about it."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When terror group Islamic State retreated in 2019, families linked to its fighters were taken to decrepit camps.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The move was something their children had no choice in.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>This group's departure leaves another 11 Australian women and children in Al-Roj.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The camp says there are no plans yet for their return.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><em><span>NEVER MISS A 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