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Syria’s Internet goes offline

Syria’s Internet has gone down, according to wide reports.

Umbrella Security Labs, a division of Internet security firm OpenDNS, reported that a Syria had a significant drop in traffic at around 6:45 p.m. UTC. The organization posted a graph showing that both top-level domain servers for Syria are “unreachable.”

According to Google’s transparency report, all the search giant’s services are inaccessible as of about 3 p.m. ET. The reports were also supported by Internet monitoring firms Renesys and BGPmon. Read more