I was there when the U.S. condemned Israel’s strike against Iraq in 1981. A lot has changed in 44 years.

Israel, with the assistance of U.S. military hardware, bombs an adversary’s nuclear facility to set back the perceived ...

The remnants of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor, 17km southeast of Baghdad, which was bombed on 7 June 1981 (Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty) Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more.

Maj. Gen. Yadlin, who flew in the 1981 Osirak reactor strike, explains why Israel's current operation against Iran represents a complex, multi-week campaign.

Osirak posed a formidable challenge: to fly a round trip of some 2,000km (1,200 miles) over hostile territory in new jets laden with bombs and extra fuel tanks. The US-made single-seat F-16s had been ...

After being attacked by both Israel and the US, Iran is likely to feel that it has no option to redouble its efforts to ...

It was codenamed Operation Opera — Israel’s daring and successful air attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor at Tuwaitha. On June 7, 1981, fourteen Israeli fighter jets (F-16s and F-15As ...

Israel has wrapped such a present before. In 1981, it destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor 11 miles west of Baghdad, sending the atomic dreams of their dictator, Saddam Hussein, up in smoke. In ...

-Citing the Begin Doctrine, which advocates preemptive strikes on nuclear threats, Israel’s past actions against nuclear sites like Iraq’s Osirak reactor in 1981 suggest a future confrontation ...

The markings you may have noticed on the nose of 107 show the Osirak raid plus 6.5 later air-to-air kills against Syrian MiGs and helicopters in Lebanon.

Unmentioned in Cheney’s note, but well-known, was that the United States had not welcomed Israel’s attack when it happened. On the contrary, Washington had been infuriated.To destroy Osirak ...