A problem of a fiber-optic cable, the Internet outage cut off from around the world nearly 20 hours of the civil war-torn Syrian state media said on Wednesday.
Internet service suddenly stopped Tuesday night, prompting the regime has pulled the plug may be used as cover for military operations guess. However, no large-scale military offensive reported on Wednesday and the opposition did not accuse the destruction system.
In the past, the regime in selected areas to stop Internet service, disrupting the communication between the rebels in the government's offensive. National power outage, the last two days in November, to coincide with a major military operations near the capital Damascus International Airport.
A U.S. network observers say this issue will have to place in Syria, the whole country is affected, although from a distance in the end what happened is impossible to tell.
The Renesys, online traffic monitoring company, said Jim Cowie, Syria is the services are provided by three submarine cables, but one will not be enough to cut off the Internet across the country.
To prevent the Internet has become a last resort, the government tried to suppress the unrest, especially in the Arab Spring protests that ultimately overthrow the leaders of the four countries.
Tunisia, the birthplace of the "Arab Spring" experienced during the frequent interruptions in Internet services during the mass protests, service in Egypt was shut down for nearly a week ahead of President Hosni Mubarak to step down in February 2011.
The Internet has been fighting a bloody battle to overthrow Assad, now entering its third year as an important tool. Syrian government restrictions on foreign media into the country, anti-government activists say has become an important source of information on Skype and amateur videos posted online.
The regime in the the Syrian northern and eastern areas under rebel control, cut off Internet service early in the uprising, forcing activists to use the more expensive satellite phone.
Activist Jabal al-Zawiya region in the northwestern Idlib province Ahmed Khatib said, the Internet has more than a year in his area.
"This is a normal message yesterday, this did not affect us," he said via Skype. Those affected are use 3G activists, most of them are activists in areas controlled by the regime. "
He said that 3G can be monitored by the authorities in Damascus activists still rely on it, because those who have a satellite phone is marked as a potential rebel sympathizers risk.
Also Wednesday, the leader of the radical rebel groups Jabhat AL-Nusra was wounded by artillery fire regime in southern Damascus, according to the Syrian Human Rights Watch based in the UK. Observatory said, several other soldiers were injured in the incident. The leaders determine his pseudonym, Abu Mohamed Golan.
Aluminum Nusra, oath of allegiance to the "base" organization of terrorist networks, one of the leading force in the civil war, and is often found in the front-line fighter.
International Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, Syria, on the diplomatic front, ushered in the new US-Russian initiative to negotiate an end to the 26-month-old Syrian conflict.
Syria decided to convene an international conference on the basis of the transition plan later this month is "encouraging news" about Syria "in a very long time," Brahimi said Wednesday.
The plan set out in Geneva last year, our goal is the Assad regime and opposition representatives, the interim government talks. Each party will be allowed to veto candidates found unacceptable.
The proposal also called for an open-ended cease-fire, the formation of a transitional government to manage the country until new elections.
Brahimi has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction at the failure to find a political solution to Syria, and has lamented the UN Security Council to block any international action on the differences.
The main opposition group, the Syrian National Union said on Wednesday welcomed the efforts to reach a political solution, but said any transition must start with al-Assad and his regime officials departure. Syrian officials said that Assad will remain in his post until his seven-year term ends next year, he will run again.
At the same time, U.S. officials said the Obama administration to provide $ 100 million in new aid to Syria, but the money for humanitarian purposes, rather than just link to any decision of the Syrian armed rebels.
The officials said the announcement will be made by the Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday in Rome, where his diplomacy, including meeting with the Foreign Minister of Jordan.
The new funds will help support the 1.4 million Syrian refugees, including many U.S. allies Jordan, hundreds of civilians still trapped in the Syrian border violence. Total U.S. humanitarian assistance, in the two years of the war will rise to $ 510 million.
U.S. officials are not authorized to speak ahead of Kerry's public announcement on the matter and requested anonymity.
The Obama administration has said it is considering the opposition the armed weapons approving authorities, including the military option, following last week's revelation that U.S. intelligence indicates that the Assad regime used chemical weapons. The United States is also looking for ways to halt the violence has killed more than 70,000 people.
But the United States remains deep reserves the right to provide direct military aid, linking al-Qaeda and other extremist view of the growing number of rebel ranks.
 
 



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