#5. Israel's Raid on Syria
Sept. 6: In what surely rates as the most underreported story of the year, Israeli warplanes attack and destroy a target in northern Syria. Israel refuses to disclose the nature of that target or much else about the operation — and the Syrians and U.S. maintain the wall of silence around the story. Still, details begin to emerge suggesting that Israel had struck what it believed to be a nuclear facility of some sort being constructed with North Korean help — a claim vigorously denied by Damascus.