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Syria suffers communications blackout

Published: 15 May 2013 - 01:12 pm | Last Updated: 03 Feb 2022 - 07:03 am

BEIRUT: Internet connections between Syria and the rest of the world were down, a U.S. web tracking firm said on Wednesday, and phone lines into Damascus from other countries were not working.

"Syrian Internet offline again 07:01 UTC / 10:00 am local," Renesys said on its Twitter account.

This is the sixth communications blackout of the two-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad and web tracking firms say the government is probably responsible.

Authorities blamed a blackout last week on a malfunctioning optic cable. (Reuters)