The Portland Timbers are standing by their support and enforcement of Major League Soccer’s ban of the “Iron Front” symbol at matches as fan groups continue to push back on the regulation. The Timbers ...

The Portland Timbers soccer team announced this month that its fans can no longer fly banners showing an antifascist symbol. The front office has banned displays of the Iron Front image: a circle ...

The Portland Timbers front office released a statement Monday to clarify the MLS rules about political stadium signage, including the ban on the Iron Front symbol, and also to explain the team’s ...

Major League Soccer officials announced Tuesday that fans, such as Portland’s Timbers Army, can once again fly an anti-fascist symbol the league had previously banned. MLS had prohibited the Iron ...

Major League Soccer has lifted its ban on fan groups’ use of the Iron Front symbol, the league announced Tuesday. MLS initially met with leaders from its teams’ supporters groups last Thursday in Las ...

A flag with the Iron Front symbol. A Betsy Ross flag. Major League Soccer’s updated fan code of conduct. Those three items together point to a new trend that has emerged in MLS stadiums across the ...

The Timbers Army and supporters’ groups across Major League Soccer are pushing back against a new league policy that bans the use of political signs and displays at games. Among the specific signage ...

A few years ago, some Portland Timbers fans started flying banners with the Iron Front symbol — a circle enclosing three arrows pointing down and to the left. The Iron Front was an anti-fascist group ...

Major League Soccer announced Tuesday that it will no longer prohibit the display of Iron Front imagery at games for the rest of the 2019 season. The displaying of the Iron Front symbol at games by ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Timbers played the Seattle Sounders at Providence Park Friday night, in one of their biggest games of the season. But when both teams took the pitch, the Timbers Army ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Ukrainian government and NATO allies have posted, then quietly deleted, three seemingly innocuous photographs from ...