Diplomats have focused on Syria's unwillingness to grant additional visits as stalling an International Atomic Energy Agency investigation into a bombed site which the US claims was a nearly-finished nuclear reactor, but IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei finds the more...
US complaints earlier this week about the "wholly inappropriate" IAEA aid scheduled to be provided to Syria have been rejected, and the agency has approved the $350,000 aid project to help the Syrian government select a site for a potential nuclear power plant. The...
The IAEA released a report on its investigation into allegations regarding Syria on Wednesday. The verdict was inconclusive, they found no definitive evidence of any wrongdoing but called for future investigations. Nevertheless, unproven accusations were sufficient...
In a conference today in Damascus about security in Iraq, western officials praised Syria for its efforts to prevent foreign fighters from infiltrating into Iraq. The United States Charge d'Affaires however, condemned the host country, accusing them of "giving safe...
The IAEA issued its Wednesday report on Syria, finding no conclusive proof of a nuclear reactor at the site of a 2007 Israeli air strike but calling for more investigations. Syria has dismissed the report's conclusions and said it considers the matter closed, with...
The media has been abuzz with reports from diplomats that the IAEA discovered minute traces of processed uranium in samples taken from the suspected Syrian nuclear installation destroyed by Israel last September. IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei seems irked by attempts to...
The timing and motivation for last Sunday's raid on a Syrian border town were already something of a mystery, but they have become even more so in the wake of an interview with a US military intelligence official published in Abu Dhabi newspaper 'The National.' In the...
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has released a statement saying that Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has been in talks with his Syrian counterpart over the past week in an attempt to defuse the growing tensions between the two countries since last Sunday's US raid. The...
With Syrian officials demanding a formal apology for last Sunday's attack and US officials painting it as a "warning" to the Syrian government to do more about policing its borders, it would come as quite a surprise to learn that the two governments may have...
Tensions continue to rise in the wake of Sunday's US strike inside Syria, who today demanded a formal apology from the US and compensation. Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Fayssal Mekdad also called for a "pledge not to repeat" the attack, which he described as...
