Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks. “It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI...

The US Department of Defence has denied the validity of Iranian media reports about the withdrawal of US troops from its military bases in Syria. A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed in a statement to the Russian RIA Novosti: "This is not true. The standards of our mission in Syria remain the...

The Lebanese army arrested six Syrian men last week who are now at “imminent risk of deportation” to Syria, where they might face torture and abuse, Amnesty International said on Thursday. At least five of them were former opposition fighters from the southern region of Daraa who...

After the Taliban captured Kabul on Aug. 15, banks were shuttered for more than a week. When the banks reopened, they limited cash withdrawals to 20,000 Afghani ($200) a day. The bank branches were crowded because the city has only a few working ATMs. After the fall of the Ashraf Ghani...