How Syria Turned Off the Internet ⇥ blog.cloudflare.com

Matthew Prince over on the CloudFare blog explains:

Syria has 4 physical cables that connect it to the rest of the Internet. Three are undersea cables that land in the city of Tartous, Syria. The fourth is an over-land cable through Turkey. In order for a whole-country outage, all four of these cables would have had to been cut simultaneously. That is unlikely to have happened.