Concern has grown for team after one critic called them "wartime traitors" for failing to salute during the Iranian anthem.

Activists played a key role in making contact with the women as they tried to dodge their minders.

Six members of Iran's women's team initially claimed humanitarian asylum in Australia due to the war in the Middle East.

A fifth of seven members of the Iran women's soccer team who accepted refugee visas to stay in Australia has changed her mind, a sport official says.

It is understood most of the team left Australia on Tuesday night, but that a player and a member of support staff have ...

The past 48 hours in Australia has showcased the dramatic complexities of the country’s migration and asylum landscape, and the power of ministerial intervention in this federal portfolio. On the one ...

Three members of Iran’s women’s football team who had accepted humanitarian visas have now returned to their country, leaving only three of the original seven still in Australia ...

Five members of the Iranian women’s soccer team, who sought asylum in Australia will be granted humanitarian visas, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, confirmed Monday.

Zahra Ghanbari is fifth football player to withdraw her request after seven squad members sought asylum in Australia.

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and new Liberal leader Angus Taylor have invoked“Australian values” to justify taking a hard line on immigration, especially from countries ...