In 2014, Islam Mitat travelled to Turkey with her new husband Ahmed, a British national she had recently met online.

Ahmed told her he had a job offer and they would live there while waiting for the paperwork that would allow her to settle in the UK.

Unbeknownst to her, Ahmed was a radicalised Muslim and had planned the secret trip to get his wife across the border to the ISIS heartland of Syria.

Tricked and trapped, Islam was living on the front line of war.

The terrified young woman then made the discovery she was pregnant with her first child.

Tonight on 60 Minutes, Islam shares her unimaginable story with reporter Tara Brown.

Exposed to the worst of brutality, Islam remarkably found strength to escape the hell of Syria.

But now she faces yet another dilemma – which country will believe her story and give her a safe place to call home?

Within days of discovering she was pregnant in Syria, Islam’s husband was killed at war.

As a woman living under ISIS, Islam was required to have the moral protection of a husband, so she was married again to an unknown Australian jihadi, Faisal Sahib, who had somehow slipped under the authorities’ radar.

The pair went on to have a child together before Faisal was killed in a coalition airstrike.

Islam was well and truly on her own.

“I wasn’t scared of the bombs. I wasn’t scared of the planes. I was scared of the people around me,” Islam tells 60 Minutes.

“I don’t want my kids to grow in this because they teach them how to kill.”

Islam knew her only hope to escape ISIS and give her children a better, safer life was to risk it all and make a dangerous getaway out of Raqqa.

Her fraught journey was terrifying and torturous. But despite all odds Islam and her children made it to safety.

Now though, her escape raises the predicament many countries are faced with: what to do with the women and children who, with the fall of ISIS, have been left behind?

With Islam’s daughter’s Australian heritage, should we as a nation take responsibility for their hardship and let them call Australia home?