{"id":269483,"date":"2026-08-29T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269483\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:21:11","slug":"storm-causes-power-outages-across-central-syrias-homs-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269483\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm causes power outages across central Syria\u2019s Homs province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdulsalam Fayez and Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n<p>29 August 2026\u2022Update: 29 August 2026<\/p>\n<p>A severe storm knocked out power across several areas of Syria\u2019s central Homs province, local authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The storm, which has affected the country since Friday afternoon, forced more than 20 medium-voltage lines out of service, Alikhbaria TV reported, citing the Homs General Electricity Company.<\/p>\n<p>The disruptions caused outages in the rural areas of Taldu, Al-Mukharram, Shin, Talkalakh and Palmyra, along with other parts of the province, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Technical crews were continuing repair work to restore electricity gradually to the affected areas, it added.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Syria\u2019s Emergency and Disaster Management Ministry warned that unstable weather would affect the country from Friday afternoon through Monday evening, bringing heavy thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s infrastructure has been severely damaged by the devastating 14-year war waged by the Bashar al-Assad regime from 2011 to 2024, worsening the vulnerability to natural disasters and severe weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abdulsalam Fayez and Rania Abushamala 29 August 2026\u2022Update: 29 August 2026 A severe storm knocked out power across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[21312,95],"class_list":["post-269483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-sitekeywords","tag-syria"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117180896506268548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}