As ITN went to press, the State Department had travel warnings on 41 destinations: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, Jordan, Kenya, North Korea, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Republic of South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia...

Three bombs were detonated in Baghdad, Iraq, on consecutive days, Feb. 14-16, altogether killing more than 70 people and injuring hundreds of others. 

In the deadliest attack, on Feb. 16, a car bomb was detonated on a busy street in southern Baghdad near a row of car dealerships, killing at least 48 people. It was the deadliest single attack in Baghdad in several months. Daesh, which controls some areas of Iraq, claimed responsibility. 

According to UN estimates, in...

A series of avalanches in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan killed more than 100 people in early February. Most deadly was an avalanche that struck a small village in the northeastern Afghani province of Nuristan, killing 53 people.

Extreme winter weather in the northern areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan caused dangerous traveling conditions, with reports of people freezing to death in their cars after roads were blocked by snow. In Afghanistan’s capital, the...