Multiple reports say several subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea and southern Red Sea near Yemen were severed or damaged, disrupting internet traffic across parts of the Middle East, South Asia and East Africa, and fueling finger‑pointing at Yemen's Iran‑aligned Houthi rebels. Multiple reports say several subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea and southern Red Sea near Yemen were severed or damaged, disrupting internet traffic across parts of the Middle East, South Asia and East Africa, and fueling finger‑pointing at Yemen's Iran‑aligned Houthi rebels. On Saturday, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Azure users may experience increased latency due to multiple subsea fiber outages in the Red Sea. In a service status update for its Azure service, the company said that traffic through the Middle East originating or terminating in Asia or Europe. Undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East, experts said Sunday, though it wasn't immediately clear what caused the incident. Multiple countries, including India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, have been affected by the outages, with users of Microsoft's Azure cloud service experiencing. Multiple subsea fiber optic cables in the Red Sea suffered simultaneous cuts on September 6, 2025, disrupting global internet and communications traffic. The incident began at 05:45 UTC and has forced operators to reroute traffic between Asia, the Middle East, and Europe over alternate paths. On Saturday, September 6, 2025, multiple submarine fiber-optic cables were severed.
