Syria experiences brief BGP routing disruption

Syria experienced a brief disruption to its internet routing infrastructure on July 12, 2026. The event, which primarily affected the network control plane, lasted for approximately 25 minutes. The disruption began at 10:20 UTC and concluded by 10:45 UTC.

Technical Details

The event registered a severity score of 188. The primary affected signal was the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) median, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table. This signal recorded a drop of 9% from its peak value during the observation window. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume measurements, showed no significant concurrent degradation. The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored following the brief disruption.