The Australian government had been alerted Wednesday that four women and nine children had booked flights from Damascus to Australia, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said.
The Australian is among a group of 34 women and children who had planned to fly from Damascus to Australia on Monday but were turned back by Syrian authorities to the Roj detention camp due to procedural problems.
The U.S. military reported a series of strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria in retaliation for the December ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter.
CENTCOM said the strikes aimed to degrade ISIS’s ability to regroup and carry out further attacks.
The U.S. military says the strikes were carried out in retaliation of the December ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter.
The strikes follow a December ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter and aim to prevent the terror group’s resurgence in Syria.