The U.S. is planning to withdraw its remaining 1,000 troops from Syria over the next two months, U.S. officials told CBS News, ending a roughly decade-long presence there.
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.
Australia's government banned an Australian citizen with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group from returning home from a detention camp in Syria, the latest development in the case of fraught repatriation of families of IS fighters.