Confirmed: internet outage in Iraq

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Confirmed: internet outage in Iraq

Iraq · March 28, 2026 · 10 hours

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Iraq. 17 critical alerts recorded.

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Evidence

76%

Anomaly Rate

17

Measurements

75%

Confidence

What This Means

76% of 17 network tests from Iraq failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 73+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda

ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)

Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship

Detection TimeMarch 28, 2026

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Corroborating Evidence (17)

Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis17 records

outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Sala ad-Din"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.02

Mar 28, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Al-Muthannia"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.08

Mar 28, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.88

Mar 28, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.96

Mar 28, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Baghdad"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.79

Mar 28, 2026

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+ 12 more IODA records

What we cannot say

Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Iraq [IQ-2026-0062]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IQ-2026-0062

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Confirmed: internet outage in Iraq

Evidence

What This Means

How We Detected This

Corroborating Evidence (17)

What we cannot say

Cite This Incident

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