Deir ez Zor

April 19, 2021

Revisiting the redundancy of BBC reservations on Syrian reactor

On April 14th Kazem Gharibabadi, who describes himself as “Ambassador and Permanent Representative...

January 18, 2021

Unverified claims and Assad propaganda in BBC News Syria strikes report

On January 13th a report headlined “Syria war: Suspected Israeli strikes on Iran-linked targets &#...

June 14, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

March 23, 2018

BBC News still not sure al Kibar was a nuclear reactor

BBC suggests that the target of Israel's 2007 operation in Deir ez Zor may not have been a nuclear r...

August 29, 2013

BBC defence correspondent: Al Kibar was a ‘suspected’ nuclear facility

The International Atomic Energy Agency says it was. US intelligence says it was. The BBC, however, i...