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Active Incident

Confirmed: network disruption in Syria

Syria · January 9, 2026 · 53 days

IODA detected significant connectivity drop. 4 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.

Evidence

35%
Anomaly Rate
29
Measurements
70%
Confidence

What This Means

35% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.

How We Detected This

Data Sourcecensoredplanet + ioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 9, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (67)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis66 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Tartus"IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
Mar 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Hamah"IODA report
Signal value: 0.03
Mar 3, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Idlib"IODA report
Signal value: 0.05
Mar 2, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Homs (Hims)"IODA report
Signal value: 0.22
Feb 26, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Lattakia"IODA report
Signal value: 0.26
Feb 26, 2026
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+ 61 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research1 record
dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tiktok.com"Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Feb 22, 2026
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Affected Services (1)

TikTok

Blocked Domains (1)

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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.

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: network disruption in Syria [SY-2026-0001]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/SY-2026-0001

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