Angelina Jolie Meets with Genocide Survivors in Iraq 8 Years After ISIS Attacks
On Wednesday, Jolie, 47, and human rights activist Nadia Murad — who escaped from ISIS captivity prior to founding the nonprofitNadia’s Initiative— togethervisited northern Iraq’s Sinjar region, where they visited Murad’s childhood home and village as well as other key areas in the region where the nonprofit is leading recovery efforts, the organization announced in a press release. The longtime humanitarian and Murad 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....