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Medical Teams International Responds to Syrian Refugee Crisis

MTI will partner with Heart for Lebanon, MedAir, and Humedica to provide this comprehensive package of services to the refugee communities.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Medical Teams international (MTI) is responding to the Syrian refugee crisis by mobilizing teams of medical volunteers and supplies to provide care to Syrians living in refugee settlements in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.

Civil war inside Syria has caused more than 70,000 deaths.

UPDATE FROM DAMASCUS: What`s left of the Arab League?

Has the Arab League mortally wounded itself by declaring war on Syria?

(DAMASCUS) - Frankly, it never was much of a “League” of Arab states.

And arguably it never really achieved a whole lot but two dozen lavish ‘summits’ offering inflated rhetoric, often calculated to assuage the Arab people about their central cause, Palestine.

Evidence Shows Syrian Rebels Behind Chemical Attack

Assad forces called upon the United Nations to launch an investigation into the attack.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Reports of a chemical weapon attack in Syria’s Aleppo Province last week provoked Western political leaders to advocate more fiercely for the overthrow of the Assad regime, despite the vague details.

Current data now suggests, that rebel forces were behind the attack.

Syrian Rebels Accused of Using Chemical Weapons; UN Will Investigate

Syria asked the secretary-general to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack on March 19.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Each time the United Nations and media around the globe report news from Syria, it is almost exclusively designed to back pro-Syrian rebels.

Sadly, the rebels from the FSA (Free Syrian Army) have proven time and time again that they are essentially operating as terrorist jihadists against the legitimate Syrian government.

A Zionist Friendly, Right-Wing Texan Islamist to Lead Syria?

A draft-dodging, Zionist friendly, right-wing Texan Islamist to lead Syria? Could the White House have dreamt for more?

(DAMASCUS, Syria Al Manar) - For the past year, US-Israel projects in Syria have failed to topple the Assad government.

Now, both Tel Aviv and the White House are pinching themselves in disbelief over their good luck with installing republican leaning conservative Dixie businessman, the congenial, Ghassan Hitto, as Syria’s new interim Prime Minister.

Damascus University Resists US Civilian Targeting Sanctions

The White House would do well to cancel its student targeting sanctions.

(DAMASCUS) - Students everywhere are special people and this observer has discovered that Syrian students are among the very best.

Meeting and interviewing students again this past week, before and following, a frank and enlightening discussion with Dr. Mohammad Amer Al-Mardini, the indefatigable President of Damascus University...

The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian `Tipping Point` Has Tipped

But not the tipping point that the rebel promoters were hoping for, including the NATO countries.

(DAMASCUS) - This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now.

“It’s just a matter of days, not weeks” President Obama declared back in 2011.

Dozens Dead in Central Damascus Bombing

Al Jazeera’s Rula Amin, reporting from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon, said the explosion took place in a heavily fortified area.

(DAMASCUS al Jazeera) - At least 42 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in a powerful car bomb targeting the ruling Baath Party headquarters in central Damascus on Thursday, state media and activists say.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based anti-government rights group, said the attack took place in the capital's central Mazraa neighbourhood on Thursday...

Israeli Warplanes Violated Syrian Airspace; Israel, Qatar, France United to Oust President Bashar al-Assad

Israeli fighters entered Syria from Zabadani on the Lebanese border; the nearest point from Lebanon to the target location (Jimraya), around 25 km.

(ROME) - The Syrian General Command of the Army and Armed Forces said in his 30/01/2013 statement that:

- Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace on Wednesday dawn and bombarded directly a scientific research center...

Barring Medicines in Syria... US-led Sanctions Contribute to the Destruction of Syria`s Millenary History

Anger toward the US government is rife in Syria, over severe, illegal sanctions targeting civilians.

(DAMASCUS, Syria) - What a difference a week can make. The heaviest snow in Syria in a quarter-century, some claimed, last week’s storm even closed the main highway from Damascus to Beirut.

But that was then and now its spring in Damascus, or so it feels to those of us used to a New England January.