Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took off from Los Angeles International Airport Sunday, May 10, with LOTS of extra bodyguards in tow, making us wonder ... where were they going and why the heightened security???

Well we think we have the answer. The pair have been M.I.A. all week and where's a place they might not be "found" by fans or paparazzi? We're guessing their trip was to Jordan, to finalize the adoption of a Syrian refugee ofphan. In fact, a bodyguard at LAX that night was begging our photographer, "Don't shoot -- don't report this, the fact that their leaving LA." The couple was so tightly surrounded by security detail, our shooter couldn't have gotten a snap even if he'd tried.

As we reported just a month ago, the Hollywood super couple and parents of six, have wanted to adopt another child for a while and decided to help a child who lost his/her parents in Syria's war against ISIS, bringing attention to the plight of the Syrian people displaced by the conflict.

Angelina, a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, spoke to the UN Council three weeks ago, in New York, blasting the international group for not doing enough for Syria and the country's refugees. In January, she wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about Syrian and Iraqi refugees who "can't go home."

Is the couple in the war-torn region now, rescuing a child from the horrors inflicted by ISIS? We wouldn't be surprised ...