A refugee's inspirational story has gone viral after he shared a picture of himself graduating eight years on from fleeing war-torn Syria.
Osama Abou Hajar posted a photograph of himself standing in the rubble of his decimated city in 2012 alongside a shot of him graduating from the Institute of Technology Carlow, in Ireland, last November.
The 27-year-old told the Mirror he hoped his LinkedIn post, which has received more than 500,000 likes, would inspire his friends back home to chase their dreams.
Osama fled Syria in 2013 after bombing flattened his home city of Ma'arat al-Nu'man - even destroying the top two floors of his apartment block.
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