Trevor Aaronson

US mil­i­tary es­ca­lates bom­bard­ment of ISIL-held ar­eas in east­ern Syr­ia af­ter Pres­i­dent Trump an­nounced troop pull-out.

De­spite as­sur­ances from Trump that ISIL is de­feat­ed, US raids against group in east­ern Syr­ia have in­ten­si­fied re­cent­ly.

Sci­en­tists from Lau­sanne Uni­ver­si­ty say radon can­not be an ex­pla­na­tion for el­e­vat­ed polo­ni­um lev­els

New re­port says for­mer Pales­tin­ian leader was not poi­soned by ra­dioac­tive polo­ni­um and that he died of nat­ur­al caus­es.

Doc­u­ments show State De­part­ment knew of se­cu­ri­ty prob­lems in Beng­hazi but failed to fix them.