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- In a video entitled "Knights of Iraq: 6" by the Islamic Front of the Iraqi Resistance's (JAMI), a participant in the video is seen firing off rounds from a handgun wearing a Zidane shirt. So I guess these means terrorists also like soccer. Someone needs to find a video of a terrorist wearing an American football jersey or a baseball jersey quick, before the mindless masses actually begin to think that. Click to continue reading...

The United States military reportedly issued a statement regreting it had handed out soccer balls emblazoned with the name of Allah as part of a public relations exercise in Afghanistan. At least one of the balls - which were dropped by helicopter to children in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan - carried a small picture of the Saudi Arabian flag. Click to continue reading...

Most of Iraq's Asian Cup winning football team were to head to the Iraq Football Association's temporary headquarters in Jordan yesterday, barely 24 hours after returning to their war-torn country for official celebrations, a sports official told AFP. "Those leaving today will use the same plane as yesterday," said Tariq Ahmed, an IFF official referring to the chartered plane that brought the Click to continue reading...

Tight anti-terrorism measures are being taken at Baghdad International Airport ahead of the arrival of the Iraq national football team that won the 14th Asian Cup for the first time in the history of the tournament, an Iraqi police source told Voice of Iraq. "The Iraqi team will arrive on Friday afternoon from the Jordanian capital Amman, and an Iraqi governmental delegation will receive the team Click to continue reading...

Iraq's mainly expat national football team are looking forward to returning home to celebrate winning the Asian Cup but there are fears for their safety and for the security of any jubilant crowds. Iraqi Youth and Sports Minister Jasem Mohammed Jaafar said on Monday it was hoped the team, most of whose players live abroad, would arrive in Baghdad this week after their historic triumph in Jakarta Click to continue reading...

The United Nations Secretary General has condemned the two terrorist bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed more than 50 Iraqi civilians celebrating their national team's Asian Cup semi-final victory. "Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, condemns this reprehensible act which came at a moment when all of Iraq had joined together to celebrate the success of their nation," his press office said in a Click to continue reading...

Two terrorist bomb attacks in Iraq have killed at least 50 people and injured 135 in Baghdad as crowds celebrated a famous Asian Cup semi-final victory by the national football team. The first strike killed 30 people in the Mansour district, where fans were marking Iraq's win against South Korea. Twenty died in the next blast, at an army checkpoint in east Baghdad. Click to continue reading...

India's national Santosh Trophy football tournament set to return this month to terrorist-disrupted Kashmir state after nearly three decades has finally been cancelled because of a lack of security, officials said. The event was scheduled to be held in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar for the first time since 1978, almost a decade before Islamist separatists launched a deadly revolt in the Click to continue reading...

Security arrangements at the Asian Cup are being tightened after intelligence reports warned of possible terrorist threats in two of the four host nations, Thailand and Indonesia. On Tuesday, Thai police said that Bangkok residents should expect tighter security in places such as airports and department stores after they ordered more checkpoints and patrols, especially in Muslim communities and Click to continue reading...