Referee barred from entering U.S. for World Cup receives a heroโs welcome in Somalia
Somalia is not competing at the World Cup, but from the scenes at Mogadishuโs airport Wednesday, youโd think the country had won the trophy.

๐บ๐ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ยท "SOMALIA" ยท ์ด 15๊ฑด
ํํฐ ๋ณด๊ธฐํ์ฌ ์ง์
48.8
0 = ๋ถ์ ์ฐ์ธ
50 = ์ค๋ฆฝ
100 = ๊ธ์ ์ฐ์ธ
์ต๊ทผ 7์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค 10,938๊ฑด์ ๋ถ์ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ด์ค ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ง์๋ 48.8(๊ท ํ)์ ๋๋ค. ๊ธ์ 1,104๊ฑด(10.1%)ยท์ค๋ฆฝ 7,817๊ฑด(71.5%)ยท๋ถ์ 2,017๊ฑด(18.4%)์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค๋ฆฝ ๋น์ค์ด ๋๋ ทํ๊ฒ ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑํฅ ์ง์๋ ์ข ํฉ 22.5(๋ณด์ ๊ฒฝํฅ)์ ๋๋ค.
Somalia is not competing at the World Cup, but from the scenes at Mogadishuโs airport Wednesday, youโd think the country had won the trophy.

A World Cup referee from Somalia has been barred from entering the U.S.A. due to suspected ties to a Somalian Muslim terrorist group. The post World Cup Referee Blocked from Entering U.S. Over Ties to Somali Terror Group appeared first on Breitbart.
A top Somalian referee who was set to officiate games at the World Cup โ has been blocked from entering the US over his alleged links to terrorist organizations, according to a report.

The FIFA World Cup 2026 referee denied entry into the United States for this yearโs tournament was turned away over suspected ties to terrorist organizations. Omar Artan, from Somalia, arrived at Miami International Airport on Saturday after departing from Istanbul. He was turned away at the airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection due to [โฆ]

As the World Cup begins later this week, match officials and team members have faced enhanced immigration scrutiny when trying to enter the United States. A FIFA referee from Somalia was turned away.

Apparently โbecause of woke,โ disparaging a whole community of people based on their nationality and using that sentiment to justify extensive fraud investigations that lead to cutting social services and occupying cities with federal agents is racist. โYouโre not allowed to complain about Somalians because thatโs racist,โ President Donald Trumpโs administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, [โฆ]
A World Cup referee from Somalia confirmed on Tuesday that US border patrol officials denied him entry into the country. โI am very, very disappointed,โ Omar Abdulkadir Artan, one of 52 referees chosen in April for the upcoming FIFA Menโs World Cup, told the New York Times. โIโm just simply a referee whoโs trying to [โฆ]
British lawmakers have condemned the apparent attempted beheading on the streets of Belfast as "sickening", "barbaric", and "medieval" as police announced the arrest of a man thought to be from Somalia. The post Lawmakers Condemn โMedievalโ and โBarbaricโ Belfast Attack, Leftists Warn of โFar-Rightโ Backlash appeared first on Breitbart.
A knife-wielding man believed to be a Somalian migrant has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Northern Ireland โ and horror video appears to show him trying to behead his victim in the middle of the street.

A Somali World Cup referee was barred from entering the United States, with customs agents citing โvetting concerns.โ Omar Artan, a referee for the FIFA World Cup, was turned back after landing at Miami from an Istanbul flight. U.S. Customs and Border Protection acknowledged his position in its statement. โDuring processing, the traveler underwent additional [โฆ]
Federal immigration authorities barred a Somali soccer referee who was slated to officiate the FIFA World Cup from entering the U.S. over the weekend, citing "vetting concerns."
Omar Artan was one of 52 referees selected for the FIFA World Cup. But on Saturday he was denied entry because of โvetting concerns,โ U.S. officials said.
The referee was "determined to be inadmissible due to vetting concerns and was denied entry," a CBP spokesperson said, without going into further detail.
Despite rising terror attacks in Somalia, Trump counter-terror czar Sebastian Gorka is taking a victory lap. The post Trumpโs War on ISIS Is Failing, No Matter How Gorka Spins It appeared first on The Intercept.
Since its proclamation of independence from Somalia in May 1991, Somaliland has sought international recognition for the territories under its control. Despite functioning as a de facto independent state for years, it lacked any formal recognition on the international stage until recently, when Israel became the first state to officially recognize Somaliland as an independent state. On Dec. 26, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel and Somaliland had signed a joint declaration establishing full diplomatic relations, describing it as being in the spirit of the Abraham Accords.Despite the enthusiastic reception in Somaliland, Israelโs move did not receive The post The Recognition Question: Somaliland, Israeli Security Geometry, and the Red Sea Power Struggle appeared first on War on the Rocks.