In Syria, turned off the Internet

In Syria covered by civil war on Thursday morning, access to the Internet was lost, writes Mashable. According to Renesys Internet monitoring service, none of the 84 Syrian IP address blocks are responding. In total, 92% of Syria's routed networks are disabled. The shutdown occurred at 10:26 UTC.

Resource Akamai, which also monitors Internet traffic, published this diagram showing the sharp disappearance of traffic:


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Syria is now at the height of the civil war: the opposition Free Army of Syria is fighting with long-term President Bashar Assad. The confrontation took place on the Internet: hackers from both sides launched attacks on the enemy sites.

According to The Verge, the main provider in Syria is the state-owned company SyriaTel. The reason for the Internet shutdown is not called, but an activist named Abu Qais al-Shami told The Associated Press that city telephone and mobile communications in Damascus, the capital of the country, also do not work.

Disabling the Internet throughout the country has already been practiced in Egypt at the height of the revolution in 2011. It became the forerunner of the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.