National Security Agency accidentally took most of Syria off the Internet while attempting to infiltrate the country’s traffic. The incident was really ironic – where other parts of the U.S. government were trying to keep Syria connected, the TAO unit was trying to repair the router and cover its tracks, to no avail. While the Syrian government blamed dissenting “terrorists” for the outage caused, the Syrian Minister of Information said that the government didn’t disable the Internet, instead the outage was caused by a cable being cut by terrorists.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/08/nsa-accidentally-took-down-syrias.html