Syria’s Internet connection appeared to go entirely offline as of 12:26 p.m. Damascus time (or about 5:26 a.m. EST) meaning the Internet has been down for over five hours, according to Web intelligence firm Renesys. Syria suffered a similar country-wide outage in July, but it lasted for 40 minutes.
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