Monitoring companies say access to internet appears to have been cut off in country
Access to the internet in Syria appeared to have been cut off on Monday evening, according to a number of monitoring companies, prompting speculation that the apparent blackout was an attempt by the Syrian government to disrupt the online activities of opponents. Live blog here.
Halid, who is 10, must be one of the bravest people I am ever likely to meet…
Illustration: George Butler
Scenes from Syria, illustrated by George Butler – in pictures
Syrian families wait their turn to register at the UNHCR center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. The UN has announced today that the number of Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict has reached 1 million. Photograph: Bilal Hussein/AP
Wednesday’s Guardian eyewitness: Syrian rebels at a training session near Idlib, in the north-west. The training is part of an attempt to transform ragtag rebel groups into a disciplined fighting force
leppo, Syria: an old woman, wounded in artillery shelling by the Syrian army, is carried into Dar al Shifa hospital
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Syrian children account for two-thirds of the refugees of the Za’atari camp in Jordan, victims of a bloody conflict that has been raging for more than 18 months.
Save the Children has launched a campaign to draw attention to their plight. If you would like to donate, or sign their petition, please visit savethechildren.org.uk/syria
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In April last year Ahmad Mohammad left his village in northern Syria filled with its pomegranate trees, figs, and goats, and moved to Lebanon. He came back five months later with a certificate in mobile phone maintenance – a weapon more powerful than Bashar al-Assad’s helicopters and tanks.
While he was away Mohammad learned how to upload videos to YouTube – a website banned by the Syrian regime. “Nobody in Syria knew how to do this,” he said.
From ‘Syria’s video activists give revolution the upper hand in media war’
Photographs: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad for the Guardian
An exclusive set of photographs from the eastern city of Deir el-Zour. Clockwise from L-R:
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