We received a report that there is a loss of connectivity with Syria.   The report claims that 90% of the Syrian prefixes disappeared from the BGP  tables between 13:32 and 14:13 (UTC) earlier today (2012-07-19).    If you have more information please comment or send a note to handler@isc.sans.edu

Thanks to NANOG

UPDATE:  Gizmodo has some more information here:  http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/syria-deleted-itself-from-the-internet-today/

UPDATE 2:  More good information on the outage:  http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/07/syria-leaves-the-internet.shtml 

Mark Baggett

@markbaggett