The father of an Australian woman who went to live in the Middle East and live under the caliphate says his daughter went of her own volition and was not “tricked”.

Kirsty Rosse-Emile, 30, left Melbourne for Syria in 2014 at the age of 19 with her then husband Nabil Kadmiry with a view of establishing themselves within the Islamic State regime, her father said.

Kadmiry had his Australian citizenship stripped in 2019 after fighting for the terrorist cell and is now believed to be in a Kurdish prison; Ms Rosse-Emile remains in the al Roj detention camp in Syria, near the Iraqi border.

However, her father Guy Rosse-Emile said his daughter went to join ISIS with her husband of her own volition.

“When she said, ‘Oh, I was tricked’ and all that, it’s not true,” he told The Nightly.

He said

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