The countries will reportedly work with Damascus and the IAEA to recover material from a site linked to a 2007 Israeli airstrike
The US and Israel have reached a deal with Damascus to remove nuclear material from a secret site in Syria, Axios reported on Monday, citing US and Israeli officials.
According to the publication, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will be given access to the so-called Site 99 to recover material described as remnants from Syria’s Al-Kibar reactor, which Israel bombed in 2007.
The site reportedly contains yellowcake, a concentrated uranium powder that can eventually be processed into nuclear fuel. While the material cannot be used directly to make a nuclear bomb, it could potentially be dispersed using conventional explosives, causing radiological contamination in what is commonly known as a dirty bomb.
Israel reportedly bombed the entrances to the site shortly after a coalition of US-backed rebel groups captured Damascus in December 2024, toppling Syria’s longtime president, Bashar Assad. An Israeli official told Axios that Israel had threatened to bomb the site again if the nuclear material was not removed or if there were signs that Syria was attempting to access it.
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