<p>Actress-filmmaker and humanitarian Angelina Jolie is in Iraq meeting survivors of a 2014 genocide which was reportedly initiated by the Islamic State years after the country's Sinjar region faced destruction. Jolie visited northern Iraq's Sinjar region along with human rights activist Nadia Murad.&nbsp;<br />
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Murad, a founder&nbsp;of a nonprofit initiative, had years back escaped from ISIS captivity. On Wednesday the two women visited Murad's childhood home and the village and other key areas where Nadia's organisation is working to rebuild.&nbsp;<br />
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Jolie, a well-known and longtime humanitarian spent the day meeting with women and children who survived the 2014 genocide, in which ISIS systematically attacked the region's Yazidi ethnoreligious minority community.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Nadia Murad &amp; Angelina Jolie jointly visited the Sinjar region of northern Iraq to mark progress made to redevelop the region &amp; reflect on the needs of survivors eight years after the Yazidi genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS): <a href="https://t.co/CUt5cCFAUk">https://t.co/CUt5cCFAUk</a> <a href="https://t.co/3xjy5y0gCA">pic.twitter.com/3xjy5y0gCA</a></p>
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<p>"I'm honoured to return to Iraq, this time to support the work of my friend Nadia Murad and other local Yazidis who are rebuilding their lives and communities after enduring horrors," Jolie said in a statement via Nadia's Initiative on Wednesday.</p>


Actress-filmmaker and humanitarian Angelina Jolie is in Iraq meeting survivors of a 2014 genocide which was reportedly initiated by the Islamic State years after the country's Sinjar region faced destruction.

Actress-filmmaker and humanitarian Angelina Jolie is in Iraq meeting survivors of a 2014 genocide which was reportedly initiated by the Islamic State years after the country's Sinjar region faced destruction. Jolie visited northern Iraq's Sinjar region along with human rights activist Nadia Murad. Murad, a founder of a nonprofit initiative, had years back escaped from ISIS captivity. On Wednesday the two women visited Murad's childhood home and the village and other key areas where Nadia's organisation is working to rebuild. Jolie, a well-known and longtime humanitarian spent the day meeting with women and children who survived the 2014 genocide, in which ISIS systematically attacked the region's Yazidi ethnoreligious minority community. Nadia Murad & Angelina Jolie jointly visited the Sinjar region of northern Iraq to mark progress made to redevelop the region & reflect on the needs of survivors eight years after the Yazidi genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS): https://t.co/CUt5cCFAUk pic.twitter.com/3xjy5y0gCA — Nadia's Initiative (@nadiainitiative) February 1, 2023 × "I'm honoured to return to Iraq, this time to support the work of my friend Nadia Murad and other local Yazidis who are rebuilding their lives and communities after enduring horrors," Jolie said in a statement via Nadia's Initiative on Wednesday.

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