Australia grandmother in emotional reunion with IS fighter's orphans

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An Australian grandmother to children of a notorious Islamic State group fighter has tracked down the orphans in a Syrian refugee camp in an ...

SYDNEY: An Australian grandmother to children of a notorious Islamic State group fighter has tracked down the orphans in a Syrian refugee camp in an emotional reunion she hopes will lead to their return home.

"I've missed you. I've missed you," Hoda Sharrouf told Nettleton as she emerged from a tent, her hands trembling."Please don't leave." "We don't get a yes or no answer... all they've said is that once we get to Turkey, they'll give us all the help that they can," Nettleton told the ABC. Khaled Sharrouf - the first Australian to have his citizenship stripped under anti-terrorism laws - made international headlines in 2014 when he posted an image on Twitter of one of his sons holding a severed head.

 

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