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Liverpool football player Mohamed Salah will not be transferred to the Saudi club Al-Ittihad, according to the Egyptian player's agent Rami Abbas. "If we considered leaving LFC this year,...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is the latest high-profile name to express his exasperation over the Saudi Pro League. The German manager raised his concerns over the discrepancy in transfer...

Early this week, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that his country's independence would never be complete as long as Palestine is occupied. Echoing the words of the late South...

Palestinian Honey Thaljieh became the first Arab woman to obtain a FIFA Master and work at FIFA, she hopes a time will come when women will have the same opportunities as men in football

Israel's national anthem has been heard in Saudi Arabia during FIFA's gaming World Cup. The two countries don't have formal diplomatic relations and this is the first time the Israeli flag and anthem have been raised in the Gulf state

In March, the South African Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the "imperialist bias" of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of the ICC as a...

The 2023 Club World Cup will take place in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, football's world governing body FIFA said on Monday. Reuters reported that the decision was...

The Palestinian people and their supporters around the world have just commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nakba ("Catastrophe"). For the first time since it started, the UN has...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is set to arrive for a historic visit to Palestine next Sunday, Wafa news agency has reported. The President of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA),...

Former Palestinian Member of the Knesset Sami Abu Shehadeh yesterday sent a letter to FIFA and its President, Gianni Infantino, calling on them to intervene to stop the racism...

Argentina has been chosen to host the Under-20 World Cup after FIFA stripped Indonesia of its right to stage the tournament due to Jakarta's refusal to host the Israel...

Palestinians marked Land Day on 30 March. On this day in 1976, the Israeli occupation forces confiscated thousands of dunums of privately owned or communal lands within the borders...

When I shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team at the Under-20 FIFA World Cup scheduled from 20 May 20 to...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called Thursday on Azerbaijan to reverse its decision to normalise relations with Israel, saying it would come at the expense of the Palestinian people's...

FIFA has officially announced that Indonesia's status as host of the U-20 World Cup 2023 has been revoked due to the protests against Israel’s participation and the cancellation of the tournament’s main draw

A 27-year-old worker at a Madrid hotel hosting the Morocco team was arrested for an alleged hate crime after posting derogatory comments on Islam and racist slurs against the...

FIFA yesterday canceled the draw for the Under-20 FIFA World Cup that was slated to take place in Indonesia next week, due to Jakarta's refusal to host Israel's team....

Morocco clinched a historic victory against Brazil yesterday in a friendly international match in Tangiers, beating the five-time World Cup winners for the first time ever and during the...

Mother's Day in the Arab world is celebrated on the first day of spring, 21 March, and for many children it is the most important day of the year,...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI announced on Tuesday that his country is to join Spain and Portugal in a joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, Anadolu has...

Football Australia (FA) and its stakeholders have reached an "overwhelming consensus" that a reported Saudi Arabia sponsorship deal does not align with their vision for the women's World Cup,...

Saudi Arabia has been selected to host the 2023 Club World Cup in December, FIFA announced yesterday. Rights groups have repeatedly called out Saudi for 'sportwashing'; investing or hosting sporting events in a bid to obscure its poor human rights record.

Bahrain is behind a judicial and media attack against Qatar in France, an investigation by French newspaper Liberation has revealed. The newspaper wrote: "The name of this small kingdom...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced an investigation into remarks made against the Kingdom of Morocco during the opening ceremony of the African Nations Championship currently being...

The dispute between Cameroon and Algeria over the result of a football match last year has apparently been ended, Anadolu has reported. The head of the Cameroon Football Federation...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday inaugurated the Nelson Mandela Stadium in the capital in the presence of FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African...

The Western media spewed forth barrel loads of pompous invective recently about why Qatar should never have been chosen to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Bewildered Qataris found...

In a Wednesday phone call, the top Turkish and Qatari diplomats both repeated their denunciation of yesterday's provocation at Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel's new National Security Minister, said an...

Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has asserted that mediation between his country and Morocco was not possible and that severing relations with Rabat was the alternative to war. In an...

The European Union Parliament has opened an official investigation into corruption cases and suspicions involving senior officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to launch a smear campaign against...

A review of 2022...