Sources: Syria stonewalls on site IAEA wants to see

Syria has not granted a UN nuclear watchdog request for prompt access to a desert site, effectively rebuffing an appeal for urgent cooperation with a probe into suspected covert atomic activity, diplomatic sources said.

For more than two years Syria has refused to allow UN inspectors to revisit the Dair Alzour site, which US intelligence reports said was a nascent North Korean-designed nuclear reactor intended to produce bomb fuel. (Reuters)