Shayma Assaad

Shayma Assaad is an Australian who lived in area controlled by Daesh, a radical group in the Syrian Civil War, in the 2010s.^[1] When the Daesh regime collapsed tens of thousands of women and children who followed their husbands and fathers, were herded into camps in areas controlled by Kurds who were supported by the United States.

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↑ Arianna Braga (2025-07-08). ""ISIS brides" and their children: Ongoing violations of children's rights in Syria and Iraq". Humanium. Retrieved 2025-08-15. in 2015, Shayma was just 15 when her parents took her from Sydney to Syria. She has given birth to four children in Syrian detention camps, who will also be repatriated. The youngest child is aged three. Her husband, a Sydney tradesman turned Islamic State fighter, Mohammed Noor Masri, has been detained by Kurdish authorities since 2019. Shayma’s mother Bessima Assaad is also expected to be repatriated, alongside her two other daughters Assya and Maysa. Her mother’s husband, Ahmad, a former Crown Security employee, is jailed in Syria (Knott, 2022).

[HumaniumIsisBrides-1] Arianna Braga (2025-07-08). ""ISIS brides" and their children: Ongoing violations of children's rights in Syria and Iraq". Humanium. Retrieved 2025-08-15. in 2015, Shayma was just 15 when her parents took her from Sydney to Syria. She has given birth to four children in Syrian detention camps, who will also be repatriated. The youngest child is aged three. Her husband, a Sydney tradesman turned Islamic State fighter, Mohammed Noor Masri, has been detained by Kurdish authorities since 2019. Shayma’s mother Bessima Assaad is also expected to be repatriated, alongside her two other daughters Assya and Maysa. Her mother’s husband, Ahmad, a former Crown Security employee, is jailed in Syria (Knott, 2022).

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