Angelina Jolie returned from her latest humanitarian visit in Iraq yesterday, but clearly the trip left quite an impression on the actress. Jolie penned an op-ed about her experience for the New York Times, which was published on Tuesday, and she details the atrocities of what the Syrian refugees are enduring.

"I have visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing like the suffering I'm witnessing now," she writes. "For many years I have visited camps, and every time, I sit in a tent and hear stories. I try my best to give support. To say something that will show solidarity and give some kind of thoughtful guidance. On this trip I was speechless."

Jolie was appointed as Special Envoy of UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres in 2012, and prior to that she was a Goodwill Ambassador for over ten years. The actress visited the Khanke Camp for Internally Displaced People on Sunday, where she spoke with victims of ISIS.

"What do you say to the 13-year-old girl who describes the warehouses where she and the others lived and would be pulled out, three at a time, to be raped by the men?" she continued. "When her brother found out, he killed himself. How can you speak when a woman your own age looks you in the eye and tells you that her whole family was killed in front of her, and that she now lives alone in a tent and has minimal food rations?"

Jolie concludes by asking that the world take a stand and get involved in defending the refugee camps. "What does it say about our commitment to human rights and accountability that we seem to tolerate crimes against humanity happening in Syria and Iraq on a daily basis? It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions," she writes. "We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria."

Pic: Getty Images for UNHCR