Special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Angelina Jolie urged world leaders to come to the rescue of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees stranded without humanitarian aid on the border with Jordan, Russia Today channel reported.

The Hollywood star made the plea as she met Syrian children at the sprawling Azraq tent city in the desert.

Angelina said: "Seventy-five thousand Syrians are stranded in no man's land at the Jordanian border including children, pregnant women and gravely ill patients".

"None of the basic protections under international law are being applied."

The movie star and campaigner wore a traditional black Middle Eastern dress on her visit to the camp 60 miles northeast of the Jordanian capital Amman.

On her tour of the camp she talked to smiling children made homeless by the five-year civil war in Syria.

Then she made a speech urging world leaders "to ask the fundamental question of what are the root causes of the Syrian conflict and what it would take to end it."

Source: MENA