Syria has once again dropped off the Internet as fighting continued in the country. It's the first such major outage there in 2014, but only the latest in a long series going back at least three years.
Internet connectivity monitoring firm Renesys posted on its "Internet events bulletin" blog that 95 percent of the country's networks disappeared at about 8:30 a.m. ET Thursday (2:30 p.m. Syria time), and have stayed down since.
Renesys classifies Syria as a "severe risk" for Internet shutdown, since the entire country's Internet access is controlled through the state-run Syrian Telecommunications Establishment — greatly simplifying the process of shutting down connections.
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/syrias-internet-goes-dark-again-n58046
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