Syria in Iraq

Syria has stepped up its assistance to insurgents in Iraq and is encouraging both secular and Islamist fighters operating across its border, according to Western and Arab officials.

The world's last Baathist state may also have acquired the key components and technology required to manufacture weapons-grade uranium, authorities fear.

Despite assurances from Damascus that it is cracking down on cross-border activity, critics claim the Syrian intelligence services are co-operating with members of the former Baghdad regime and even with associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian accused of orchestrating a wave of bloody bombings, kidnappings and murders in Iraq.

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The new Iraqi government will publish damning evidence this week linking foreign powers, including Iran and Syria, to the Muslim extremists and loyalists of the former regime who launched a bloody rebellion after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

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