Aqwise, a global provider of advanced water and wastewater treatment solutions for the industrial and municipal markets, has officially dedicated its new wastewater treatment facility in Durango, Northern Mexico. Plans for the $3 million Turn-Key wastewater treatment project were signed in 2013, during an official visit by then President Shimon Peres...

President Barack Obama is facing growing bipartisan pressure from lawmakers opposed to giving Iran further sanctions relief under the guise of adhering to the “letter and the spirit” of last year’s nuclear deal, Associated Press diplomatic reporter Matt Lee wrote in an analysis published Monday. While many international sanctions on Iran have been lifted due...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has formed a new constitutional court that will have primacy over lower courts and further entrench his hold on power, Reuters reported on Monday. The court, which will be run by judges who are affiliated with Abbas’ political party Fatah, “risks deepening Palestinian political divisions,” according to critics. Its rulings...

Passivity in the face of ongoing Iranian provocations is hurting American credibility in the Middle East, particularly with the Gulf states, a former U.S. State Department official wrote in CNN on Friday. Aaron David Miller, now the vice president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, argued that the Obama administration’s reluctance to push back against Iranian...

A Palestinian terrorist who killed three people, including an American-born peace activist, in an October 2015 terror attack was honored at a ceremony in a West Bank high school run by the Palestinian Authority last week. The program at the Shari’ah School for Boys in Qalqiliya, which was first reported by Palestinian Media Watch, honored terrorist...

The editors of The Washington Post called on the Obama administration to take action against Iran for ballistic missile tests it carried out since agreeing to last year’s nuclear deal on Wednesday. While crediting Iran with complying with “the principal terms” of the nuclear deal, the editors pointed out that Iran “has aggressively exploited loopholes in...