Banned ISIS bride is allowed to RETURN to Australia as Tony Burke reveals she has been given a permit

By KYLIE STEVENS, SENIOR BREAKING NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 23:06, 24 June 2026 | Updated: 23:16, 24 June 2026 The last so-called ISIS bride stranded in the Middle East will be allowed to return to Australia, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed. Hodan Abby, 29, originally from western Sydney, was the only person issued with a government-issued temporary exclusion order (TEO) from a cohort of Australian women with links to IS in Syria, who have since returned. The TEO prevented Ms Abby from entering Australia for two years. She attempted to board a flight from Damascus to Sydney with other ISIS brides linked to the terrorist group last month but was turned away at check-in. Ms Abby was given the option of allowing her disabled nine-year-old daughter to return to Australia with the other women, which was declined.  Burke has since revealed that Ms Abby had formally requested to return to Australia and was issued a permit on Wednesday night. 'We received the final advice yesterday that we can no longer have an exclusion condition for her,' he told ABC's AM radio program on Thursday. Ms Abby's permit to return will include a raft of monitoring measures from intelligence and security agencies. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed that the last so-called ISIS bride stuck in the Middle East will be able to return to Australia 'She will have to report where she lives, where she works, where she studies, if she books a ticket to anywhere, for telecommunications she cannot use any telecommunications device without giving 24 hours notice,' Burke added. Ms Abby will be subjected to 'significant and invasive surveillance', according to government sources. She was among the first Australians to independently travel to Syria when war broke out. Then aged 18, she and friend Hafsa Mohamed, 20, lied to their parents about going on holidays in December 2014, before they boarded flights to Turkey and crossed the border into Syria. Ms Mohamed was killed in the conflict zone in 2015, leaving Ms Abby stranded at al-Roj refugee camp since the fall of Islamic State. Her daughter, now aged nine, lives with disabilities and ongoing speech and movement impairments as a result of shrapnel wounds to her head, hip and back. The comments below have been moderated in advance. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Do you want to automatically post your MailOnline comments to your Facebook Timeline? Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual We will automatically post your comment and a link to the news story to your Facebook timeline at the same time it is posted on MailOnline. To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook. You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. Your details from Facebook will be used to provide you with tailored content, marketing and ads in line with our Privacy Policy.