A severed fiber-optic cable has cut telecommunications and internet services in Syria ''s southern provinces of Daraa and Suwayda, with maintenance teams dispatched to make repairs.
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Repeated attacks on the telecom infrastructure in Daraa and Suweyda have damaged the fiber optic connecting the two provinces, causing a
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Local reports attribute the outages to vandalism and theft of the fiber-optic cables that connect the region, particularly in areas of southern Rural Damascus. These disruptions have had
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Telecommunications and internet services have been affected in Syria''s southern provinces of Daraa and Suwayda after a fiber-optic cable linking
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Syria''s Ministry of Communications reported that internet services in Damascus and its surrounding areas were disrupted due to the sabotage of two fiber optic lines by remnants of the Assad regime.
According to Bellingcat''s open-source investigations, the sabotage likely involved physical cutting or laser damage to the cable''s fiber-optic strands. Such attacks require specialized
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