The United States denied entry over the weekend to football referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, who had been expected to be the first Somali to officiate at a World Cup match.A FIFA spokesperson said on Mo ...

Highly rated Somali referee Omar Artan is turned away from the US just days before he was expected to officiate in the FIFA ...

Omar Artan was set to become the first Somali to referee a game at the World Cup finals, but his place in history has been denied by US immigration authorities.

Football Association Chairman Sheikh Ahmad Al-Yousef honoured international Somali referee Omar Artan, who officiated the ...

FIFA has released a statement after Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was turned away at the border at Miami International Airport just days before the World Cup kicks off ...

The Somali government expressed "deep regret" on Tuesday after award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan was barred from entering the United States and dropped from officiating at the World Cup. Artan, ...

The US denied entry to Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan for the World Cup, sparking international outrage and ...

Defiant cheers and national pride eclipsed a crushed sporting dream at Aden Abdulle Osman International Airport on Wednesday. Omar Abdulkadir Artan, the star Somali football referee barred from ...

A United States official said Tuesday night that Omar Artan, the Somalian referee who was denied entry into the country ahead of the World Cup, was refused admission due to "association with suspected ...

The Donald Trump administration has said that the United States denied entry to Somali referee Omar Artan because he had alleged links with "members of terror ...

Hundreds of Somali spectators cheered as they watched two teams of young women play football in a Mogadishu stadium -- an unimaginable scene in the conservative, conflict-hit country just a few years ...