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The Rojava Information Center website seems to be down:
https://rojavainformationcenter.org/
I don’t know much about the website; I had been visiting it occasionally for updates about, and another perspective upon, the Syrian situation. It has always seemed factual, not sensationalist, and not partisan.
The site apparently uses the Cloudflare Content Distribution Network (CDN), as this site does. Many sites with limited resources use CDNs to buffer their server from overload and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
Cloudflare is reporting that their server is timing out (error code 524), and the home page shows no content. Given the Salafist takeover in Syria, backed by Türkiye, and Erdoğan’s longstanding animosity towards the Kurds, I’m worried.
I’ve been trying to find out more about this, but have drawn a blank so far. They were posting regularly on x until March 29, the day after the release of a new report titled ‘After Assad – Turkey and SNA Crimes Against Civilians in NES [North East Syria]’. That can still be accessed. I haven’t read it all, but the summary states that RIC “has recorded purposeful targeting of civilians, attacking essential civilian infrastructure, the targeting of medical workers and ambulances, looting and property crimes and forced displacement carried out at the hands of Turkey and its Syrian proxy forces”.
The report can be found at rojavainformationcenter.org/2025/03/after-assad-turkey-and-sna-crimes-against-civilians-in-nes/.
There is also a version of the website at rojavainformationcenter.com, but (seemingly) with nothing published later than 2022.
Steph, thanks. I can access that page:
rojavainformationcenter.org/2025/03/after-assad-turkey-and-sna-crimes-against-civilians-in-nes
…even though the home page is timing out. I assume it’s a cached copy being served by Cloudflare. I have downloaded and saved a copy of the report.
I see they also have a Mastodon account:
…but the latest post is 8 March, apparently this year.
I’ve just found a report on al Jazeera, dated 1 April, of nationwide electricity blackouts in Syria:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/1/syria-hit-with-nationwide-power-outage-amid-grid-failures
Perhaps they’ve seen the light and stopped thinking the internet is a safe place to communicate.
The site is working again today. However, there are no new reports since the outage, the latest I’ve found being 29 March, and I haven’t found any announcement about why it was timing out.
Does the shop that sells or otherwise provides Cloudfare have big windows?
