Monday, December 9, 2013

Civil War In Syria -- News Updates December 9, 2013

A view of a section of the road through the Qalamoun mountains used to transport Syria's chemical weapons. VOA

Syrian Phones And Internet Cut, While Chemical Weapons Removal Faces Delays -- The Guardian

As Syria is hit by outages, chemical weapons watchdog says it is still set to meet removal deadline despite hold-ups

Syrian state television says the country's local and international telephone lines as well as the internet are down because of technical problems.

The station says technicians are working to fix the problem in Syria's main fibre optic cable. The report gave no further details.

Calls were not going through to Syria on Monday afternoon.

Canadian network monitoring firm BGPmon said that Syria was hit by a countrywide internet outage affecting more than 90% of the nation's networks at 11.30 Syria time (09.30 GMT). Telephones and the internet have been cut on several occasions since Syria's crisis began in March 2011.

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More News On Syria's Civil War

Syria Live Blog -- Al Jazeera

Syrian army secures Damascus-Homs motorway -- BBC
Syrian army retakes road needed to ship out chemical arms -- Reuters
Syria army secures Damascus-Homs highway -- Global Post/AFP
Syria Retakes Road Needed for Chemical Weapons Removal -- Voice of America
Syrian troops seize strategic town -- Al Jazeera
Syrian state media say government troops have captured western town near north-south highway -- FOX News/AP

Delays possible in Syria chemicals weapons mission -- Washington Post/AP
Syria Chemical Weapons Deadlines May be Missed -- Wall Street Journal
Chemical watchdog warns of Syria delay -- Al Arabiya
Russia says could help transport Syrian chemical arms to port -- Reuters

Increasing number of Palestinians, Israeli Arabs fighting in Syria -- UPI
Number of Palestinians fighting in Syria on the rise -- Times of Israel

‘Jihadis in Syria use Turkish safe house network’ -- Times of Israel
Al-Qaeda says it shot down Syria drone -- Al Jazeera
Saudi jihadists flow into Syria -- Al-Monitor
Al-Qaeda’s Governance Strategy In Raqqa, Syria – Analysis -- Eurasia Review

Hezbollah commander killed, civilians ‘executed’ -- Gulf News/AFP
Lebanon races to help Syria refugees ahead of storm -- Ahram Online/AFP

Aid groups urge protection of Syrian medical facilities -- Global Post/AFP
Syria: Senior UN officials strongly condemn attacks on health personnel, facilities -- UN News Centre

Syria Internet, phones being restored after outage: TV -- Daily Star/AFP
Syria's Internet And Telephone Lines Are Down -- AP
Syria's Internet is down again -- NBC

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