An Australian mother and daughter "kept a female slave" after travelling to Syria in 2014 to support the Islamic State group, police said Friday as the pair faced charges in Melbourne.

The women returned to Australia on Thursday after years spent in a Syrian detention camp, where they were stranded after Islamic State's collapse.

Counter-terrorism forces arrested Kawsar Ahmad, 53, and her daughter Zeinab, 31, immediately after their Qatar Airways flight landed at Melbourne International airport.

By Renju Jose

SYDNEY, May 8 (Reuters) - Australian police said on Friday they had charged two women linked to the Islamic State extremist group with slavery offences after they returned overnight from Syria, where they had been detained in a refugee camp for more than seven years.

The women, aged 53 and 31, face crimes against humanity charges including owning and using a slave in Syria, which carry a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. They were arrested at Melbourne airport on Thursday upon their arrival.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called for US authorities to relaunch their investigation into the Israeli military's killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was gunned down while reporting for Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank in 2022.

In a letter to the US Department of Justice -- which oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- and FBI chief Kash Patel, the global press freedoms group demanded a "public progress update" on Abu Akleh's death.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday three U.S. Navy destroyers transited out of the Strait of Hormuz under fire, adding that the American destroyers were not damaged but "great damage was done to Iranian attackers."

"Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire. There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats," he said.

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said it carried out retaliatory strikes on Iran on Thursday, targeting sites it said were responsible for attacking U.S. forces in what it called unprovoked hostilities by Tehran.

Earlier, Iran's top joint military command said the U.S. had violated a ceasefire by targeting an Iranian oil tanker and another ship entering the Strait of Hormuz, and by striking civilian areas.

May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. military naval units operating in the area of the Strait of Hormuz came under Iranian missile fire following an attack by the U.S. military on an Iranian oil tanker, Iranian state media, citing an unnamed military official, said on Thursday.

U.S. military vessels were forced to retreat after sustaining damage from Iranian missile strikes, it added.

It was unclear when the incident happened.

Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim reported that three U.S. destroyers near the Strait of Hormuz were targeted in an attack by the Iranian navy.

May 8 (Reuters) - Iran accused the United States of violating a ceasefire by targeting two ships at the Strait of Hormuz and attacking civilian areas, the country's top joint military command said early on Friday.

The U.S. targeted "an Iranian oil tanker traveling from Iran's coastal waters near Jask toward the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel entering the Strait of Hormuz near the Emirati port of Fujairah," a spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement carried by state media.

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a "great call" with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday and would give the EU until July 4 to fulfill its side of the trade deal before hiking U.S. tariffs to much higher levels.

"I’ve been waiting patiently for the EU to fulfill their side of the Historic Trade Deal we agreed in Turnberry, Scotland, the largest Trade Deal, ever!" Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

A man who launched a Molotov cocktail attack on Jewish protesters in Colorado last year that killed one person and injured more than a dozen others was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday, US media said.

Mohamed Soliman, a 46-year-old Egyptian, admitted a raft of charges, including first degree murder, over the horrific June attack in Boulder.

Soliman threw fire bombs and sprayed burning gasoline at a group of people who had gathered in the city in support of Israeli hostages held by Hamas after the militant group's assault on Israel in October 2023.

By Steve Gorman and Keith Coffman

DENVER, May 7 (Reuters) - The man who lobbed gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally in a fiery attack last year that killed one person and left more than a dozen others injured in Colorado pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges he faced in state court and was sentenced to life in prison.