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A woman accused of travelling to Syria to join ISIS has renounced the terror group, her lawyer says.
Rayan El-Houli was arrested on Thursday and charged with travelling to a declared conflict zone and joining a terrorist group.
The 34-year-old was due to apply for bail in Melbourne's Magistrates Court on Monday, but her lawyer sought an adjournment after the prosecution noted a lack of evidence she had disavowed IS.
Barrister Peter Morrissey SC told the court he needed more time to obtain the relevant material.
saying his client, quote, renounces ISIS and violent jihad and, quote, wants nothing to do with it, not for herself and especially not for her children.
Police allege El-Houli travelled to Syria between 2013 and 2014 before she was arrested and placed in a northeast Syrian detention camp in 2019.
The woman travelled through Lebanon with her children and returned to Australia in September before her arrest in Melbourne last week.
El-Houli remains behind bars awaiting her adjourned bail hearing.
The US military says it's bombed Iranian military control sites after Tehran shot down an American drone.
The latest in a series of exchanges comes amid negotiations to end the three-month war.
The US Department of Defense said strikes on Iran's Gulf Coast were in response to, quote, "...aggressive Iranian actions that included shooting down a US MQ-1 remotely piloted aircraft operating over international waters."
Officials said US fighter aircraft swiftly responded by, quote, eliminating Iranian air defences, a ground control station and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says it targeted an air base used by the US for an attack on southern Iran without identifying which base.