Taliban forces began assaulting Kunduz, a city of 300,000 people in northern Afghanistan, on Sept. 28, taking control of large portions of the city on Sept. 29-30. During the fighting, at least 40 people were killed and more than 300 were injured, most of them civilians.

Taliban fighters attempted to take the Kunduz airport from NATO forces on Sept. 29 but were rebuffed by American air strikes. On Sept. 30, Taliban fighters took the Bala Hissar fortress, a strategic hilltop army...

Members of the Presidential Guard loyal to ousted president Blaise Compaoré briefly held the acting president and prime minister of Burkina Faso hostage on Sept. 17 after the interim government suggested that the Guard be disbanded and that allies of the former president be restricted from running for office in the October elections. The Guard killed at least 10 civilians in the capital, Ouagadougou, who were protesting the Presidential Guards’ attempted coup.

The Guard ended the coup...

As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 39 destinations: Afghanistan, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, El Salvador, Eritrea, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Kenya, North Korea, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Republic of South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey,...