U.N. envoy Angelina Jolie visits Syria refugees in Iraq September 15, 2012 -- Updated 1541 GMT (2341 HKT) Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari welcomes UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador actress Angelina Jolie in Baghdad. Actress Angelina Jolie visited a Syrian refuge camp in Baghdad She held talks with Iraqi Foreign Minster Hoshyar Zebari about the plight of refugees The number of Syrian refugees in Iraq has risen to 21,000, Zebari says Jolie is a special envoy for the U.N.'s refugee agency Baghdad (CNN) -- Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited a Syrian refugee camp in Baghdad and met senior government officials Saturday on a visit to Iraq in her role as a special envoy for the U.N.'s refugee agency. Jolie and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari discussed the situation of Syrian refugees in Iraq while meeting at his office in Baghdad, the foreign ministry said in a statement They also talked about the efforts made by the Iraqi government to meet the daily needs of refugees, the statement said. Zebari told Jolie that the number of Syrian refugees who have fled the conflict to seek sanctuary in Iraq has risen to 21,000. Many are now living in Iraq's western Anbar and northern Duhok provinces. U.N. ambassador Jolie visits Syrian refugees in Jordan Zebari said that nearly 31,000 Iraqis have also fled the war in Syria and returned to their native country. Jolie also met with officials from the Iraqi ministry that deals with displaced persons. Later Saturday, Jolie will fly to Irbil to meet Kurdish officials and will visit another Syrian refugee camp in the north. Jolie has recently visited refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan to highlight suffering and the need for international humanitarian assistance. While at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on Tuesday, Jolie, who is herself raising six children with partner Brad Pitt, spoke of the horrors that children, many of them orphans, have witnessed in Syria. It's an extraordinary thing. We encourage the international community to support the people here until one day they go back home," she said. Jolie, who was appointed a special envoy of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres in April, accompanied Guterres on a visit to the Kilis camp in Turkey on Thursday. She was previously a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Refugee Agency, undertaking more than 40 field trips on its behalf.