- War games on two fronts - Haaretz
Now we have seen evidence of the catastrophe unfolding in Syria and considered the scenarios of future terror in Iran, other recent stories - fascinating as they may be - seem less significant. The bloodbath at the soccer game in the Egyptian city of ...
- Hijab ban driving Muslim women from soccer - Chicago Tribune
While physical Olympic sports such as rugby and taekwondo allow Muslim women to wear the headscarf in competition, soccer, the world's most popular sport, remains against its use, citing safety concerns.Last year the Iranian women's soccer team were ...
- News of the word in photos: Soccer riot aftermath and more - Seattle Post Intelligencer
All Egyptian football matches have been postponed indefinitely. An injured man is carried after arriving from Port Said at a train station in Cairo on Thursday. Witnesses say scores of Egyptian soccer fans were stabbed to death while others suffocated, ...
- Port Said turns to uprising focal point - FOXSports.com
Egypt is as passionate about soccer as Iran, if not more so. For one thing, it has the Ultras, the hardcore fans who take after those in places like Italy and Serbia. Increasingly politicized over the years, these young men were already well-organized, ...
- Is Bashar al-Assad Committing Genocide in Syria? - PolicyMic
There are many reasons to be worried about the Middle East: soccer riots and renewed protests in Egypt, an unstable Libya, rising tensions over nuclear power in Iran, escalating sectarian violence in Iraq, and peace negotiations that may or may not be ...
- Asian FC urges rule makers to OK hijab - ESPN
AP KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The Asian Football Confederation has urged soccer's rule-making body to approve a headscarf with new safety features for use by Islamic female players. AFC acting chief Zhang Jilong said in a statement Monday that a ...
- Commentary: Foreign policy football - Kansas City Star
Instead, it is increasingly a ragged soccer ball, punted from Iowa to South Carolina to Florida as every presidential candidate tries to embarrass, humiliate, ridicule and upstage the guy in charge of our nuclear weapons as well as our overall foreign ...
- Soccer-Iraq win voided for fielding banned player - Reuters
- Threats to cut Egypt assistance could impact Israel, US influence in Mideast - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
US officials have been scrambling to figure out who to deal with as Egypt has descended into disarray, with a soccer riot Feb. 1 devolving into a free-for-all that left at least 74 people dead. Administration officials have reached out to the Egyptian ...
- ADVISORY CNN Wire Outlook - CNN International
More than 1000 more have been injured in scenes that will leave an indelible mark on post-revolution Egypt -- because in Egypt soccer matters perhaps more than anywhere. Passions have always run high in Egyptian football. The Cairo derby between Al ...