Operation Outside the Box
2007 Israeli airstrike on a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor
Operation Outside the Box
Operation Outside the Box, also known as Operation Orchard, was an Israeli airstrike on a confirmed nuclear reactor under construction, referred to as the Al Kibar site (also referred to in IAEA documents as Dair Alzour), in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria, which occurred just after midnight (local time) on 6 September 2007. In 2026 it was established the Syrians held 27 tons of nuclear materials associated to the site, including yellow cake, and the Trump administration, Israel and Syria negotiated a deal to remove it from Syria. The Israeli and U.S. governments did not announce the secret raids for seven months. The White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subsequently confirmed that American intelligence had also indicated the site was a nuclear facility with a military purpose, though Syria's Assad government denied this. A 2009 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation reported evidence of uranium and graphite and concluded that the site bore features resembling...
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