In this paper we give several new results concerning domination problem in the setting of positive operators between Banach lattices. Mainly, it is proved that every positive operator R on a Banach lattice E dominated by an almost weakly compact operator T satisfies that the R 2 is almost weakly compact. Domination by strictly singular operators is also considered. Moreover, we present some interesting connections between strictly singular, disjointly strictly singular and almost weakly compact operators.