Syrian activists are trying to stop a possible war criminal from back home from attending the Paris Olympics. It’s a lot harder to do than one might expect.Last August, a Syrian man posted a ...

Syria's most famous swimmer, Yusra Mardini, has spent the past weeks in Paris, embedded in the refugee Olympic team for the third summer Games in a row. But Mardini, 26, has shifted from being the ...

The Syrian is the youngest table tennis athlete to ever compete at the Olympics, and only the second table tennis player from her country to compete at an Olympic level. In other action, Polish ...

Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini, who almost drowned at sea fleeing her war-torn country before competing at two Olympics, hopes a new film about her life will help other displaced people.

Mardini's goal was originally to make it to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, but her coach said she had progressed so well that there was a good chance that she could qualify for the International ...

Shadi al-Basha watched with pride as his 10-year-old son entered Idlib’s Municipal Stadium on August 26. “The first time I ...

then moved to Syria for three years and then back to Somalia before returning to the Netherlands via Ethiopia when he was ...