Syria Internet Severed

Internet traffic into and out of Syria was cut off abruptly at on Tuesday evening at approximately 21:45 local time.  The sudden drop in traffic was recorded by numerous ISPs, including Google's Transparency Report service. No official reason has been given for the outage.

The last Internet blackout to hit Syria occurred in November 2012.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/disruptions/82/