Kuwait Police Seize Sports Offices as Power Struggle Boils

Kuwaiti authorities ordered police to seize the Gulf state's football association and Olympic committee offices, in the latest round of a sporting power struggle.

The action on Sunday heightened a standoff that has seen Kuwait suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world football's governing body FIFA since October.

The country did not take part in this year's Rio Olympics and will not contest the qualifiers for football's 2018 World Cup.

The move came after the government's sports commission ousted Sheikh Talal Fahad al-Sabah as head of the Kuwait Football Association (KFA) and the national Olympic committee.