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Angelina Jolie Visits Refugees in Iraq

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Getty 012515 AngelinaJolie?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1422210231742SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images(ERBIL, Iraq) — Angelina Jolie traveled to Iraq on Sunday to visit Syrians and Iraqis displaced in the battle against ISIS.

Jolie is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees and has made multiple visits to refugee camps in the region. The United Nations says more than three million people have fled the fighting in Syria and another 6.5 million were displaced within Syria. An additional 2.5 million were displaced in Iraq.

“It is shocking to see how the humanitarian situation in Iraq has deteriorated since my last visit,” Jolie said. “Many…innocent people have been uprooted multiple times as they seek safety admist shifting frontlines.”

“Too many innocent people are paying the price of the conflict in Syria and spread of extremism,” the Unbroken filmmaker said. She also expressed her “deepest sympathy” to the family of Haruna Yukawa, the Japanese hostage who was apparently executed at the hands of ISIS.


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