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Program: Lebanese village devastated by occupation
Israeli forces withdrawing from occupied territory in southern Lebanon have left behind a trail of destruction. ABC's Foreign Correspondent program was one of the first international media crews allowed into one village.
Program: Last ISIS bride in Syria may not return
The Minister for Home Affairs, Immigration and Citizenship, Tony Burke, has today suggested an Australian woman linked to Islamic State may decide against returning to Australia for fear of being prosecuted. Hodan Abby is the last known Australian ISIS bride in Syria. She has spent years in the El Roj refugee camp in the country's north.
Program: Australian woman 'ISIS judge' in Syrian camp
An Australian woman who is trying to get home from Syria has been described by people who knew her as a threatening, violent enforcer of Sharia law and an Islamic State 'true believer.' During her time in Kurdish-run detention camps, Hodan Abby allegedly hit a woman with a hammer over an ideological dispute and spent time in an informal prison inside the camps. Inside the Kurdish-run detention camp, al-Roj, in northern Syria, Australian Hodan Abby was labelled an enforcer of Sharia law.
Australian ISIS-linked woman was enforcer of Sharia law in Syrian camp, ABC told
Exclusive by Stephanie March and Baderkhan Ahmad It would come as a silent threat in the middle of the night — a niqab and a knife — left outside a tent in the squalid, prison-like detention camp housing Islamic State-linked families in Syria. The message for the occupant was simple: wear the black veil preferred by the Islamic State (IS), or else.
Program: Allegations ISIS bride abused Yazidi woman
The last of the known ISIS-linked Australian women in Syria is expected to return home amid allegations that a Yazidi girl was enslaved, beaten and raped in her home in Syria a decade ago, the ABC can reveal. Sydney-woman Hodan Abby has spent more than a decade living in the ISIS caliphate and Kurdish detention camps after travelling to Syria in 2014 and last month the Home Affairs minister granted her a return permit to come back to Australia.
Program: Allegations ISIS-linked Australian abused Yazidi woman
The last of the known ISIS-linked Australian women in Syria is expected to return home amid allegations that a Yazidi girl was enslaved, beaten and raped in her home in Syria a decade ago, the ABC can reveal. Sydney-woman Hodan Abby has spent more than a decade living in the ISIS caliphate and Kurdish detention camps after travelling to Syria in 2014 and last month the Home Affairs minister granted her a return permit to come back to Australia.
IS-linked Australian woman now cleared to travel home accused of beating enslaved Yazidi girl
The last of the known Islamic State-linked Australian women in Syria is expected to return home amid allegations a Yazidi girl was enslaved, beaten and raped in the woman's home in Syria a decade ago, the ABC can reveal. Warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of violence that some readers may find distressing Sydney woman Hodan Abby spent more than a decade in the self-declared Islamic State (IS) caliphate and Kurdish detention camps after leaving Australia in 2014.
Program: Yazidi women say they were held captive
Two Yazidi women previously told the ABC they were held captive in the Syrian home of some of the returned ISIS-linked Australians. One woman says she's been interviewed by the Australian Federal Police, and would be willing to testify in any proceedings. She first spoke to the ABC for an episode of the Foreign Correspondent program in 2023, looking at the legacy of the ISIS caliphate on the persecuted Yazidi minority community. Police cars were at the refugee camp to escort those leaving.
'Completely unprecedented': Women linked to ISIS charged with 'crimes against humanity' Original
By Stephanie March and Emily Clark, ABC News The ABC can reveal new details about the alleged treatment of a Yazidi woman who says she was held captive in the home of ISIS-linked Australians in Syria, including two women who have just returned to Melbourne and are facing slave-related charges. The Yazidi woman also confirmed to the ABC that she has been interviewed by the Australian Federal Police and would be willing to testify in any proceedings.
ISIS-linked women to face slavery-related charges as new details emerge of Yazidi woman's alleged captivity
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ISIS-linked women to face slavery-related charges as new details emerge of Yazidi woman's alleged captivity
The ABC can reveal new detail about the alleged treatment of a Yazidi woman who claims she was held captive in the home of ISIS-linked Australians in Syria, including two women who have just returned to Melbourne and are facing slave-related charges. The Yazidi woman also confirmed to the ABC that she has been interviewed by the Australian Federal Police and would be willing to testify in any proceedings.
Australia's lucrative drug market is fuelling a wave of narco subs crossing the Pacific
Authorities are warning of sophisticated new models capable of travelling further and carrying bigger drug hauls. Drug cartels don't typically have a "lost and found" department, and in the Solomon Islands, the saying in pijin goes: "sapos yu faendim yu keepim", which basically means "finders keepers".
Program: Gang member jailed for life in Tonga over drug deal
An Australian deportee serving a life sentence in Tonga for importing methamphetamine confesses he attempted to set up a chapter of the Comancheros in the island nation to "piss off" the Australian Government. Speaking exclusively to Foreign Correspondent inside prison, Eneasi Taumoefolau claims he never fully succeeded in establishing the "Kingdom Chapter" as his effort was thwarted by the unsophisticated level of criminality in Tonga.
Program: Bikie gangs try to infiltrate Pacific nations
An Australian deportee serving a life sentence in Tonga for importing methamphetamine confesses he attempted to set up a chapter of the Comancheros in the island nation to "piss off" the Australian Government. Speaking exclusively to Foreign Correspondent inside prison, Eneasi Taumoefolau claims he never fully succeeded in establishing the "Kingdom Chapter" as his effort was thwarted by the unsophisticated level of criminality in Tonga.
Stephanie March - ABC News
Stephanie March is an award-winning reporter with Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners, based in Sydney. She was previously a correspondent in the ABC’s North America and South Asia bureaus. For more secure communication, contact Stephanie at march.stephanie@protonmail.com.
From TikTok to Tongan prison: Australian deportee who imported drugs and called himself a Comanchero boss
An Australian deportee serving a life sentence in Tonga for importing methamphetamine has confessed he attempted to set up a chapter of the Comancheros in the island nation to "piss off" the Australian government. Eneasi Taumoefolau's 2024 arrest on drugs charges made international headlines, igniting fears the notoriously violent outlaw motorcycle gang had infiltrated the nation known as "the Friendly Islands".
The men tricked into helping drug smugglers import Fiji's largest-ever meth haul
It was just before dawn off the coast of north-west Fiji and Tui, a skipper of 20 years' sailing experience, feared he might be sinking. His barge was sitting low in the water under the enormous weight of the cargo he was hauling. On board was 4.5 tonnes of methamphetamine worth more than a billion dollars, supplied by the ruthless Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. Tui motored home slowly, but his mind was racing after the strange offshore rendezvous he'd just made.
Program: South Pacific becomes traffickers 'superhighway'
Fiji Police have revealed they want to put an Australian man on trial for allegedly orchestrating the importation of more than four-tonnes of methamphetamine - the largest drug seizure in the island nation's history. The revelation comes as the volume of illicit drugs seized in the South Pacific hits record levels.
Australian man Sam Amine wanted in Fiji over record meth import from cartel
Police in Fiji want Australian man Sam Amine to face trial for his alleged role in a massive transnational drug importation. A Foreign Correspondent investigation into Fiji's largest-ever meth bust reveals his alleged links to organised crime in Sydney and Fiji. Authorities in both countries are now pursuing millions of dollars' worth of Amine's assets said to be proceeds of crime.
The kids growing up in 'the most dangerous place in the world to be a child'
There are a million kids living in Gaza. Foreign Correspondent followed one young family trying to survive. War has taken so much from 10-year-old Siraj Mohamed. Most troubling is how it's robbed him of the bedrock assurances of childhood: that a bomb won't fall from the sky; that his siblings will be alive tomorrow; that his parents are able to keep him safe. Those promises are now in ruins, like the shattered buildings piled up around him.
The crumbling democracy of Russia's neighbour
The former Soviet Republic of Georgia - once a darling of the West and on a fast track to EU membership - has recently made a stunning about-face, passing a raft of draconian laws, crushing civil society, and jailing dissenters. Stephanie March has travelled to the Caucasus for Foreign Correspondent, to report on a democracy crumbling and warnings Russia is behind Georgia's authoritarian shift.
As the world watches Ukraine, Russia could be making a power grab here
Zurab Japaridze has chosen to spend his last night as a free man standing outside an institution he loathes. The Georgian opposition politician has joined a throng of demonstrators in front of the country's parliament. Many are masked, trying to avoid the gaze of dozens of facial-recognition cameras. If identified, they're often fined more than $2,500 each. Donning only a baseball cap, a fine is the least of Zurab's worries — tomorrow, he's likely going to jail.
New Syrian government fights Assad regime holdouts
Syria's new government has been grappling to secure the country after the fall of dictator President Bashar Al Assad last December. For months, the new security forces have been conducting raids across the country trying to root out armed remnants of the regime who are refusing to surrender.
Elephants cause chaos in Botswana
Botswana hosts the largest number of elephants anywhere on the planet - it's great for tourism but has become a nightmare for many locals. The majestic megafauna destroy infrastructure, farms and have killed or injured about 100 people over a decade.
Undecided voters targeted in US swing state
Of all the swing states in the United States Presidential election, Michigan is the one Kamala Harris should have in the bag, but she doesn't. Instead, the polls are neck and neck and on the ground, this must-win state for Democrats feels very much up for grabs.
Russia's ambitions on Norwegian soil
As the war in Ukraine drags on, a high-stakes game of provocation and propaganda involving Russia and Norway — a founding member of NATO — is quietly playing out thousands of kilometres away in the Arctic.
Solomon Islands still dealing with deadly legacy
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Scuba diving to find oil in Solomon Islands' corroding World War II wrecks
In waters across the Pacific, an untold amount of black, toxic oil is contained within the corroding wrecks of World War II ships. And it’s leaking into the ocean. Inside the murky hull of a Japanese transport ship, 25 metres below the water's surface, a diver reaches out towards a black glob on the roof. As he touches it, little dark bubbles of oil jump about in the water. He rubs his fingers together. They are covered in sticky sludge.
Yazidi mothers forced to abandon their children after ISIS slavery hope to resettle in Australia Original
In a sparse, tiled room in Iraq, with mattresses neatly arranged along the wall and an air-conditioner propped in a window, Berivan looks at a picture of her five-year-old daughter Maria. The little girl is wearing pink. She has dark hair and a big smile and is standing next to four other small children. It's hard to believe that someone may want to harm, or even kill, Maria and the other children in the photo, but that is what Berivan worries about every day.
ISIS tried to exterminate the Yazidis. These women survived life inside the caliphate
Sarab was just 11 years old when she was abducted and sold as a slave. Over five-and-a-half years she was passed between six different men living inside the Islamic State caliphate. Now, she has told Foreign Correspondent how she allegedly ended up in the home of an Australian man living in Syria, who has been accused of multiple rapes by another captive.
ISIS tried to exterminate the Yazidis. These women survived life inside the caliphate
Sarab was just 11 years old when she was abducted and sold as a slave. Over five-and-a-half years she was passed between six different men living inside the Islamic State caliphate. Now, she has told Foreign Correspondent how she allegedly ended up in the home of an Australian man living in Syria, who has been accused of multiple rapes by another captive.
Aisha is seven months pregnant. She just walked 300km through the desert with two toddlers
Trapped between ruthless militants and the worst drought in four decades, a young Somali mother made an agonising decision. It's mid-morning and 30-year-old Aisha Sugal crumples onto the dusty ground. Seven months' pregnant, she has just walked 30km a day for the past 10 days, with no food and very little water. Her one-year-old daughter Hamdo and two-year-old son Mohamed rode next to her most of the way in a donkey cart. But like any little baby, Hamdo often cried to be picked up and carried.
Marie has been charged with reprehensible crimes. In the Philippines, there are more mothers like her
Warning: This story contains details of sexual abuse. Marie was lying on a mattress with her children on the floor of their home in Manila when the agents burst in. One of the children was resting on a pink Minnie Mouse pillow. A backpack and a white school shirt hung from a hook. Above the bed, a strip light was strapped to a wire. Marie sat up, looking deeply confused and worried. An agent told the children to find something to cover their faces before leading them away to a van.
Matt Davis - ABC News
Matt Davis has worked as a reporter, producer and camera operator at Foreign Correspondent since 2015. His work has taken him from the heart of the world’s metropolises to the remotest corners of the globe. Before joining the ABC, Matt worked in the media across the arts, entertainment, news and current affairs, factual television, and the surfing industry. You can follow Matt on Instagram @mtd_vision
The Coalition failed to bring in a federal ICAC. Now it could be set to support Labor’s anti-corruption body
Peter Dutton has signalled that he is preparing to back the government's landmark proposed federal anti-corruption commission, declaring his confidence that "there'll be a bill that we can support". The Albanese government is expected to unveil its model for a federal integrity commission in parliament on Tuesday, amid ongoing debate about how it will operate and the scope of its powers.
Qantas staff fear the airline's stellar safety reputation is at risk as pressure from management mounts
Qantas has an enviable safety record, consistently ranked as either the safest airline in the world or not far from it. Since the dawn of the Jet Age, it has never suffered a fatal accident or lost an aeroplane hull, which is a credit to its staff and its leadership.
'Absolutely, Australia should be worried': China is in talks to buy a strategic island in the Pacific Original
阅读中文版 A Chinese state-owned company is negotiating to buy a deep-water port and World War II airstrip in Solomon Islands, as new documents detail how money from Beijing has helped keep the Pacific nation's controversial leader in power. As a battle for influence plays out in the region, an investigation by Four Corners has found China is aggressively pursuing economic opportunities across the Solomons to boost Beijing's strategic interests.
Liberals accuse each other's factions of 'thuggish behaviour' and being 'a cancer that's infected the party' Original
Recriminations over the Coalition's federal election loss have boiled over spectacularly, with senior Liberal Party figures engaging in a vicious blame game over the impact of factional infighting on the result. Four Corners has spoken to dozens of Liberal Party members about the Coalition's devastating loss, which has been blamed in part on the failure to preselect candidates in more than a dozen NSW seats until weeks before the election date.
Australians ordered to extract videotaped confession from man allegedly tortured in secret interrogation centre in East Timor
An Australian intelligence officer ordered interrogators to extract a videotaped confession from a Timorese man after he was allegedly tortured in a secret interrogation centre in East Timor in 1999.
Sir Peter Cosgrove 'dismayed' to learn of New Zealand's secret probe into allegations of torture by Australian soldiers in East Timor
Former governor-general Sir Peter Cosgrove says he is "dismayed" at the revelation Australia's closest ally, New Zealand, secretly investigated torture allegations against soldiers under his command in East Timor in 1999.
'They tortured us': The men and boys inside Australia's secret interrogation facility reveal their ordeal
Secret interrogation centre in East Timor During the widely celebrated peace-making mission in East Timor, Australian soldiers held 14 men and boys in a secret interrogation facility. The detainees, suspected of being pro-Indonesian militia, say they were stripped, assaulted, deprived of food, water and sleep, and forcibly shown the mangled bodies of two dead militiamen. Their ordeal led to Australian military investigators recommending charges of torture.
Case against SAS soldier accused of mistreating corpses in East Timor collapsed after New Zealand witnesses were denied identity protections
Australia's only prosecution of an elite SAS soldier for crimes in combat collapsed because key witnesses were refused "standard" identity protections, the New Zealand military has revealed.
An Australian SAS soldier allegedly punched and kicked bodies in 1999. Here's what you need to know
What witnesses say they saw and heard in the aftermath of a firefight between Australian special forces and militia in East Timor has been unearthed after more than 20 years. The accounts include disturbing allegations about the actions of an Australian SAS soldier who Four Corners has called "Operator K". They also raise questions about why the case against Operator K collapsed. What was the SAS doing in East Timor?
An Australian soldier was accused of kicking corpses in East Timor. What the NZ SAS witnessed went much further
Secret documents have revealed the eyewitness accounts of New Zealand special forces soldiers who accused an Australian SAS operator of brutalising the corpses of two militiamen in the aftermath of a fierce firefight in East Timor in 1999. The case was investigated as murder after the Australian Federal Police (AFP) agreed with military investigators that the wounded men may have been shot at close range in an act of revenge. Warning: This story contains graphic content.
Trumpdate: Why is Donald Trump pardoning celebs?
This week we ponder what message Donald Trump is sending by pardoning well known conservatives and famous people. And it's been a tough week for the President's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and current Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. One is facing time in the big house, and the other is defending her honour. This is a Trumpdate - your regular update on all things to do with the investigation. Want to get in touch? Email: russia@abc.net.au.
How the class of 2020 are preparing for their future during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Lauren Day, Naomi Selvaratnam and Stephanie March Posted November 02, 2020 05:35:10 From Melbourne to Mount Isa, year 12 is ending without the usual rites of passage, and teenagers are entering adulthood facing soaring unemployment, border closures and a recession. They may be less likely to get severely ill from the virus, but their futures will be forever shaped by it.
Epping Gardens Aged Care coronavirus outbreak led to desperation behind the scenes, records reveal
© Provided by ABC Health The death toll at Epping Gardens has soared to 28 residents. (ABC News: Four Corners) Increasingly desperate calls for more staff to work at Melbourne's Epping Gardens Aged Care home during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak went unanswered, Four Corners can reveal. The home in Melbourne's northern suburbs is the site of the Australia's largest aged care outbreak, with 162 residents and staff infected.
Doctors warned Victoria's health department about hotel infection control dangers before coronavirus spread
© Provided by ABC News AMA Victorian President Julian Rait said he was disappointed the department did not respond to the concerns raised about the hotel quarantine program. (Four Corners: Daniel Fermer) Frontline doctors warned about infection dangers inside Victoria's hotel quarantine program more than a month before workers started catching COVID-19, but the state's health department never responded to their concerns.
Photographs capture the grim reality for some of Australia's bushfire survivors
The smoke has lifted and exhaustion has set in. Still without water or heating, some bushfire survivors are struggling through a bitter winter. When Ronnie Eagles explains what she's been using for a toilet for the past six months, she puts on a brave face. "I did dig the old-fashioned toilet," she said. The pit toilet sits near the borrowed caravan, where she and husband Trevor are spending the winter. "I can put a tree in it afterwards and close it on in, and I'll have a good tree then," she joked.
Photographs capture the grim reality for some of Australia's bushfire survivors Original
By Stephanie March and Sashka Koloff with photography by Harriet Tatham Updated July 07, 2020 10:01:52 The smoke has lifted and exhaustion has set in. Still without water or heating, some bushfire survivors are struggling through a bitter winter. When Ronnie Eagles explains what she's been using for a toilet for the past six months, she puts on a brave face. "I did dig the old-fashioned toilet," she said.
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