When a group of Australian women and children linked to ISIS boarded a flight from Doha to Melbourne on Wednesday, they took a leap of faith, unsure of what fate awaited them at the end of their journey.Those 14 hours in the air would either mark the beginning of their new lives, or the end of their brief freedom."We just want the children to be safe," one of the women explained to the ABC as she waited at the airport.In the arrival terminal in Doha, the women weren't hard to miss, despite their oversized sunglasses and hijabs, as their thick Australian accents carried across the room.Kawsar Abbas, her daughters Zeinab Ahmed and Zahra Ahmed, and their children were accompanied by their uncle, Melbourne Boxing Coach Abraham Abbas, who had travelled to Syria to help bring them home.After initially showing hostility to media waiting at the gate, the women quickly warmed.They joked they should have spoken in Arabic to blend in, after the ABC approached them as they transited the city on their way to Melbourne Al Roj remains controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), but after repeatedly asking foreign countries to repatriate their citizens, its officials have been letting detainees with travel documents leave.Kawsar, Zeinab and Zahra — as well as another woman, Janai Safar, who flew to Sydney separately with her child — left the Al Roj camp on April 24.They were part of a broader group of 34 women and children living in the camp, who briefly made it out in January after securing Australian passports