(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian lecturer and former detainee Omar Al-Shogre has received the Leadership Award from the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustav for having leadership skills and noble attributes like sympathy and courage and the willingness to build a better future for humans. ...

On a coronavirus ward in an east London hospital, award-winning film-maker Hassan Akkad, a refugee from Syria, is working as a cleaner, joining the fight against the pandemic in his adopted home. “I’m so glad to be helping,” Akkad said in an interview on Zoom. The 32-year old...

A Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon has been put on lockdown after the UN announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in one of the country's numerous and crowded camps. The patient, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, has been taken to the state-run Rafic Hariri hospital in Beirut,...

Four children and their mother were killed when an old unexploded bomb went off in northern Jordan on Monday, according to Jordanian police. "A hand grenade exploded in Al-Mafraq province which led to the death of four children and their mother," police spokesman, Amer al-Sartawi, said....