IAEA finds uranium traces in Syria linked to site bombed by Israel

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog has found traces of uranium in Syria in its investigation into a building Israel destroyed in 2007 that the agency has long believed was probably an undeclared nuclear reactor, it said in a report to member states on Monday.

The government of now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad said the Deir al-Zor site that included the building was a conventional military base.

The International Atomic Energy Agency concluded in 2011 the…