Last week, Syria completely disappeared from the Internet, and not for the first time either. Since then, it poked its head back out into cyberspace, but not for long; Google's Transparency Report is showing that it's gone again. Read More >>

As the country has done before, Syria cut off the Internet for all its citizens yesterday. As in all Internet access has completely disappeared. Google's Transparency Report, which shows traffic to Google, reveals that Syria pretty much no longer exists on the Internet. Read More >>

Necessity, so they say, is the mother of invention — and if you need a tank but don't have one to hand, it's time to get creative. Like these Syrian rebels, who threw together this tank after a trip to a junk yard. Read More >>

Just two days after the Syrian government cut the country off from access to the Internet, connectivity is coming back. Reports from Renesys and CloudFlare indicate that the country's connections started coming back online at 14:32 UTC today. Read More >>

Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened. The following graph shows the last several days of traffic coming to CloudFlare's network from Syria. Read More >>

Lights out, rebels: it looks like the Syrian government just blacked out almost the entire country's access to the web. This is cyber warfare. Read More >>

Sometimes you just have to send out that text. This Syrian rebel, photographed by C.J. Chivers, seems to be in that position. According to Chivers, even though there's a war on, a lot of the countryside has cell service, and many fighters spend a lot of time texting, and trying to figure out how they can charge their phones. Read More >>

News giant Reuters has recently been hacked by online attackers, in not just one area, but across two different platforms, and used to spread propaganda messages that support the Syrian regime. Uh oh. Read More >>

The Kronen Zeitung is Austria's largest newspaper, with a daily readership of around three million people. Yesterday, those readers were treated to the image on the left of war-torn Aleppo, bombed out and desperate. Except, as one sharp-eyed Redditor points out, that wasn't the scene at all. It was just another Photoshop job. Read More >>

For 40 minutes yesterday, Syria didn't exist on the Internet — its (currently) ruling government completely unplugged itself. All's fair in war and more war. Read More >>

Woah, woah, I know what you're thinking. I can't believe it either. Anonymous? Good? Well, it turns out our favourite infamous hacktivist group is claiming responsibility for an attack on the computer systems of the Syrian government, which then lead to over two million emails ending up in the digital inboxes of WikiLeaks. Nice. Read More >>

Those who thought that Wikileaks was dead and buried with Assange on the run, think again. The whistle-blower site has just dumped over 2.4 million documents from the Syrian government online for your perusal, in a new custom database built to handle the sheer volume of leaked data -- its biggest to date. Read More >>

Col. Hassan Hamada of the Syrian air force decided to fly out of Syria and land in a Jordanian airbase instead of going home on Thursday. The airman made his stylish escape yesterday without a hitch in his MiG-21, and is now an official rebel forces hero. Read More >>

The BBC has made another terrible photo mistake, and this one's nothing like as funny as the Halo/UN confusion. It used an image from the Iraq war in 2003 war to highlight the recent Syrian outrages, despite glaring inconsistencies between the facts and the actual pic. Read More >>

Looks like someone at the BBC was being extremely lazy. Last Thursday, during a lunchtime news piece about the conflict in Syria, the BBC used the logo from Halo's fictional United Nations Space Command (UNSC) instead of the real United Nations logo -- Google image search perhaps? Read More >>