FILE : A member of Syria's new authorities security forces fires his weapon in Sanamayn, in the southern province of Daraa, during a reported large scale military campaign . AFP
Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that the outage was caused by damage to the fiber-optic cable linking Daraa to Damascus, citing the Daraa Telecommunication Branch director Ahmad Al-Hariri.
Al-Hariri attributed the disruption to repeated attacks on telecommunications infrastructure, which severed the crucial cable connecting both provinces to the main communication hubs.
The Syrian Telecommunications Company repair teams are working around the clock to restore services, he assured. However, the timeline for full restoration depends on the availability of necessary materials.
He also warned that such incidents negatively impact citizens and disrupt essential services, urging greater efforts to protect telecom infrastructure to ensure continuous and efficient communication networks.
This comes amid escalating violence along Syria’s Mediterranean coast between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Al-Assad in which more than 1,000 people have been killed, making it one of the deadliest acts of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor has reported that 745 Alawite civilians were killed in the Latakia and Tartus provinces in the past 48 hours.
SOHR said they were killed in "executions" carried out by security personnel or pro-government fighters, accompanied by the "looting of homes and properties,” and a major power and water cut around Latakia.
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