The father of an Australian jihadi bride has told how he tried to call police after his daughter fled to join ISIS but was told to call back during business hours.
Janai Safar, 24, fled to Syria via Turkey with her cousin during a family holiday in Lebanon in 2015.
After discovering that both women were missing, Ms Safar's father Samer said he called the Australian Federal Police in a panic, but was told to call back on Monday.
'They said: ''We can't help you.'' I said: ''My daughter, she's gone to Turkey and I'm worried'' … They gave me a number … it just (said) ''sorry we're open on Monday'',' Mr Safar told The Australian.
When Mr Safar called the number he was given, no one answered the phone.
Ms Safar, a former nursing student from Sydney, is currently residing in a Kurdish refugee camp in Roj, in northern Syria, with her two-year-old son Uthman.
She is one of the few defiant jihadi brides who have chosen to stay part of the Islamic State and has vowed never to return home to Australia where she says there are 'naked women on the streets'.
Janai Safar is currently residing in a Kurdish refugee camp in Roj, in northern Syria, with her two-year-old son Uthman
The mother-of-one, who was a nursing student in Sydney before leaving the country in 2015. Pictured above is another Syrian refugee camp
An AFP spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that they were not able to comment on individual cases.
'In circumstances such as this, the AFP is unable to prevent people from travelling if they have a lawful and valid passport,' he said.
'The AFP will continue to work with its international partners with respect to the issue of Australians suspected of travelling to conflict zones.'
Mr Safar described ISIS members as 'crazy' and said his daughter is 'stubborn' but 'kind-hearted'.
He said he has asked her to come home and she has refused.
'She doesn't want to show she's fallen. But at the end of the day Australia is her country,' he said.
Is is thought more than 200 Australians have fled to the so-called Islamic State since 2012.
During 2015 the AFP established an effective relationship with the Turkish authorities to stop the flow of Australians to Syria through Turkey, which became a well-trodden route to Islamic State.
Their operation was effective and they managed to apprehend more than 20 Australians en route, suggesting that if authorities had acted sooner they may have been able to stop Ms Safar at the border.
Ms Safar appears to be one of the few defiant jihadi brides who have chosen to stay as part of the Islamic State, while others have expressed regret in joining. Former life: Lisa Smith (circled) as an Irish soldier, left her country to join the Islamic State but is now begging to return home
Lisa Smith, pictured left at the al-Hol refugee camp in Syria with her two-year-old daughter in recent days, and right before she fled Ireland to join ISIS, is pleading to return home and says prison in Ireland could be no worse than life at the camp
Ms Safar, who was tracked down by the Australian last week, insisted that she never trained or fought for ISIS but still fears she will be jailed if she ever came back to Australia.
She explained she and her cousin, who she only identified as Aylam, met their husbands in Raqqa between 2015 and 2017.
They made the decision to join the jihadi group after watching material online and 'studying' together and then fled without telling their families.
The two women are believed to have ties to ISIS commanders who were accused of plotting a bomb attack on an Australian flight in 2017.
Ms Safar revealed the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade interviewed her on the two men's involvement in the alleged plot which she said was 'not true.'
She claimed her husband had never spoken about violence or terrorism, but said he did own weapons - as did 'everyone'.
She did not go into further detail other than saying he was a Lebanese Australian who died in a car crash a year ago.
Teenage bride Zehra Duman left Melbourne aged 19 to join the terror group in 2014. She was recently believed to be in a Syrian refugee camp, desperate to come home. Pictured: the woman thought to be Duman alongside aid workers
In an interview (pictured) with an American humanitarian worker, a woman who refused to confirm her identity but is
