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Syria Back Online After 20-Hour Blackout

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Internet access was restored in Syria on Wednesday after the country had been cut off from the worldwide web for almost 24 hours, the SANA state-controlled news agency reported.

MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) – Internet access was restored in Syria on Wednesday after the country had been cut off from the worldwide web for almost 24 hours, the SANA state-controlled news agency reported.

The service was restored after a faulty optical fiber cable was reportedly fixed.

Global network traffic monitoring company Renesys reported that Syria was back online at 14:13 GMT, which represents a 19½-hour blackout, less than half the duration of the country’s last Internet outage in November.

In that incident, the opposition in Syria, which has been in the throes of a civil war for the past two years, blamed President Bashar Assad’s government for the outage, but the government denied the accusations.

 

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