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| President Trump administration negotiates removal of nuclear material from covert Syrian site |
| 2026-08-12 |
| [Just The News] The Trump administration has reached agreement with Syria and Israel for the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove nuclear material stored at a covert site in Syria, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. This deal comes as the Trump administration and the IAEA were rushing to reach a diplomatic agreement to secure the material and resolve the matter before Israel and potentially Turkey get involved over the sensitive site, as the news outlet Axios first reported. "We think everybody is happy with the result. Hopefully, we will be able to kick off the removal process soon and end it before the end of the year," a U.S. official said. U.S. officials also said that the event indicated the growing closeness of the U.S. and the new Syrian government under Ahmed al-Sharaa, according to Axios. The behind-the-scenes exchange of threats and diplomacy over the secret site occurred over months before the resolution was reached weeks ago, but was kept hidden and not previously reported, Axios said. The secret nuclear program which had been developed under the Assad regime with the help of North Korean experts in the mid 2000s centered on the Al-Kibar reactor, which was mostly destroyed after Israel bombed it in 2007. However, several research-and-development and storage sites, mostly inactive, reportedly remained. After the toppling of the Assad regime, the IAEA signed an agreement with the new Syrian government allowing it to visit the Al-Kibar reactor and several other sites connected to Syria’s prior nuclear activity. One of the facilities Israel was closely monitoring over the past two years was called "Site 99." According to two Israeli officials, the Assad regime stored nuclear material as part of the Al-Kibar nuclear reactor project. |
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