These satellite images, taken August 5, 2007 (top) and October 24, 2007 (bottom), show a suspected nuclear facility in Syria.

New satellite pictures show Syria has razed the site of what might have been a secret nuclear reactor under construction apparently bombed by Israel last month, an atomic research institute says.

Syria has denied illicitly hiding a nuclear site from the U N nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and said the only facility in the area in question was a desertification research centre.