Tag Archives: Syria

Satellite imagery shows Syria is dismantling a suspected, partly built nuclear reactor. Syria may have been preparing for an Israeli attack two weeks ago.

Syria is said to be dismantling the suspected nuclear site that was attacked and destroyed by Israeli attack aircraft last month. “Based on overhead photography, the officials say the site in Syria’s eastern desert near the Euphrates River had a ‘signature’ or characteristics of a small but substantial nuclear reactor, one similar in structure to […]

President Bashar al Assad said he would back a Turkish invasion of Iraq to root out the Kurdish PKK terror group. A Syrian representative at the United Nations denied the Israeli strike last month targeted a nuclear facility.

Syria is encouraging Iraqi insurgents and Baathists to organize opposition inside its borders. Syria remains the departing point for suicide bombers heading into Iraq.

Sheikh Mahmoud Abu al Qaqaa, a recruiter of foriegn fighters for al Qaeda in Iraq, was shot and killed in the city of Aleppo as he left the Imam Mosque after Friday prayers. Al Qaqaa was appointed the head of a religious school by the Syrian government last year.

The September 6 raid near Dayr az-Zawr targeted nuclear materials supplied to Syria by North Korea, according to The Times. Israeli commandos dressed as Syrian guards, gathered intelligence, and confirmed North Korean nuclear materials were being illegally obtained. Airstrikes were then ordered, with US approval.

The Israeli Air Force reportedly struck a North Korean-built