Afghanistan Experiences Brief BGP Disruption on July 16

Afghanistan registered a brief disruption to its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane on July 16, 2026. The event lasted approximately 25 minutes, starting at 07:15 UTC and ending at 07:40 UTC. The disruption was assigned a severity score of 27.

Technical Details

The event was isolated to the BGP signal, which measures the visibility of network routing prefixes in the global control plane. The median BGP visibility metric recorded a drop of 2% from its peak during the observation window. Other connectivity signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume measurements, showed minimal deviation from their baselines.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

The disruption was resolved within the same observation window.