Archive September 2, 2025

Asisat Oshoala, a Nigerian forward, left Bay FC for Saudi Women’s Premier League side Al-Hilal.

The agreement’s terms were not made public. The 30-year-old international from Nigeria signed a two-year deal with Al-Hilal.

Oshoala left Barcelona for Bay FC in the beginning of its 2024 season, where she won two Women’s Champions League titles. In her first year with the San Francisco Bay Area team, she scored a team-high seven goals.

In the 17th minute of a game between Angel City and Bay FC, the 30-year-old scored the club’s first franchise goal on March 17, 2024.

Asisat has been a significant player in Bay FC history, not just because of her physical exertion but also because of the energy, professionalism, and kindness she consistently brought to the field,” according to Matt Patter, the sporting director of Bay on Tuesday.

We are appreciative of everything she contributed to our club during its first season because she is a top player and an even better person.

Oshoala, who won her sixth Africa Cup of Nations title in July, was a member of the Nigerian team that won its 10th African Cup of Nations title. She was also a six-time African player of the year.

Oshoala, who was born in Ikorodu, was also the first African woman to receive the Ballon d’Or award, a title that is given annually to honor the best player in the world.

She was denied the Spain’s Alexia Putellas with the 2022 award. She received her sixth and final African Women’s Player of the Year award in that year.

According to a judicial source and a human rights organization, a French court has issued arrest warrants for seven former top Syrian officials, including former president Bashar al-Assad, related to the bombing of a press center in Homs.

On February 22, 2012, a rocket struck the “informal press center,” injuring two journalists and an interpreter, as well as renowned US journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik.

In addition to al-Assad, who emigrated to Russia in December of that year when opposition fighters took control of Syria, warrants have also been issued against his brother Maher al-Assad, who at the time was de facto commander of the 4th Syrian armoured division, intelligence chief Ali Mamlouk, and then-army chief of staff Ali Ayoub, among others.

In its courts, France allows the filing of crimes against humanity.

According to the Syrian Center for Media and Free Expression, it was determined that the attack had purposefully targeted foreign journalists by the French judiciary.

According to Mazen Darwish, a lawyer and general director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, “the judicial investigation clearly established that the attack on the informal press center in Bab Amr was part of the Syrian regime’s explicit intention to target foreign journalists in order to stifle media coverage of its crimes and force them to leave the city and the country.”

The journalists were the victims of a “targeted bombing,” according to the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) who also reported.

The warrants, which were issued on Tuesday, were welcomed by Clemence Bectarte, the family of Ochlik, and he called them “a decisive step that opens the door for a trial in France for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.”

The attack on the informal press center where they were employed also injured British photographer Paul Conroy, French journalist Edith Bouvier, and Syrian translator Wael Omar.

Colvin, who had lost one eye to an explosion during Sri Lanka’s civil war, was renowned for her fearless reporting and signature black eye patch. A Private War, a Golden Globe-nominated movie, celebrated her career.

Local media and a police official claim that at least 11 people were killed in an explosion at a rally held in Quetta, Pakistan, by the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M).

Police are conducting an investigation into the explosion, police official Athar Rasheed told Reuters on Tuesday.

At least 29 people were hurt in the explosion in the western city, according to the English-language Dawn news site.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the deadly explosion.