IN PHOTOS: U.N. Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visits refugee camps

IN PHOTOS: U.N. Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visits refugee camps

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) special envoy, Angelina Jolie visited the Domiz Camp in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq on June 17, 2018. The camp is home to 33,000 Syrian refugees displaced by seven years of civil war. On June 16, Jolie visited Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq, which Iraqi forces took back last year from Islamic State militants. IS had occupied the city for three years, forcing 900,000 residents to flee. Jolie has worked for UNHCR since 2001, visiting displaced civilians from Iraq to Cambodia and Kenya. This was her fifth visit to Iraq, UNHCR said.
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