Syria Suffers Nationwide Power Blackout

For the first time since the eruption of civil war in 2011, a nationwide electricity blackout hit Syria in the early hours Thursday. The country’s official news agency, SANA, reported that the cause of the shutdown is not known and that workers are trying to restore power region-by-region. Government experts said they expect to the power to be resorted in the next 12 hours in the entire country. Power outage, shortage “This is a just technical issue that happens in many...

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