Norway's coalition government is close to collapse after the anti-immigrant party propping it up said it will pull out over an Islamic State (IS) bride's repatriation from Syria.
The Progress Party's leader, who is also Norway's finance minister, will resign from the government and remove her party from the four-party coalition, robbing the prime minister of her parliamentary majority.
Siv Jensen made good on her threat to leave the government after a 29-year-old Norwegian-Pakistani woman arrived in Norway on Saturday with her son, five, and daughter, three.
The decision to bring the IS bride back to Norway, accompanied by police, was made on "humanitarian grounds" over fears one of her children is seriously ill, minister of foreign affairs Ine Eriksen Soreide said.
The mother, who has not been named, was arrested on arrival for "participation in a terrorist organisation" and taken with her children to hospital.
Under Norwegian law she faces up to six years in prison for participating in a terrorist organisation.
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