Dezie Woods-Jones, Oakland City Council member who founded Bay Area advocacy group Black Women Organized for Political Action in 1968, said Ellis inspired scores of new activists to join the party or become more engaged... ..…

commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has described United States plan for forming coalition to in Persian Gulf as self-defeating initiative... ..…

Germany's foreign minister says it won't join a US-led mission to protect international shipping near Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf. . “The Trump administration has put us in a situation where everybody is talking of a risk of war, of creeping escalation,” Volker Perthes, director..…

And because Israel is now more of a friend than a foe to Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies, their hypocrisy could also make America complicit in Saudi war crimes in Yemen and throughout the region. . ..…

This has survived war against Iran and stinging military defeat in 1991, after Iraq's of Kuwait on August 1990 and the outbreak of Gulf war. ..…

Russia and China talk about containment of the threat, renew calls for peaceful diplomacy, support dialogue with Iran to reduce the imminent danger of war in the Persian Gulf, with Venezuela, with respect to all the nations attacked occupied or threatened by the United States. ..…

On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Moscow is concerned by the increasing conflict potential in the Persian Gulf as the US seems to be seeking a pretext to start a war, expressing concern at Washington’s efforts to build up a coalition capable of deploying naval assets to..…