The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board of governors on Sept. 9 decided to close a long-time probe against Syria launched under ousted leader Bashar al-Assad after the country’s new authorities led agency experts to key nuclear sites.

A near-complete nuclear reactor built secretly during the rule of toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad would have been able to produce material to make nuclear weapons, the UN…

UN watchdog says material from facility, bombed in 2007, now under IAEA safeguards.