Complex sentence: Al-Jumaili and his family fled to Syria in 2003 following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, joining the dozens of other Iraqi actors and comedians who also fled the violence that was sweeping Iraq in the years following the invasion.
Split into simpler sentences: Al-Jumaili and his family fled to Syria in 2003 following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He joined dozens of other Iraqi actors and comedians who also fled the violence that was sweeping Iraq in the years following the invasion.