Track-It Afghanistan

KABUL — Avalanches on a mountain pass north of Kabul have killed at least 28 people, with another 1,500 stranded in their vehicles on snow-blocked roads, Afghan officials said Tuesday. Read more

ISLAMABAD — Aid groups in Pakistan need nearly $538 million over the next six months to help hundreds of thousands of people displaced by army clashes against the Taliban, the U.N. said in an international appeal Tuesday. Read more

Feb. 9--Count those pills and pass the ammunition.

Every day for six months, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Thompson, 40, wore a flak vest, Army fatigues and carried a weapon when he went to work at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. You could describe his job as combat pharmacist. Read more

Feb. 9--Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan -- Heading into battle to seize a Taliban stronghold, U.S. Marines are keenly aware of one factor that could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: Afghan civilian... Read more

OUTPOST BELLEAU WOOD, Afghanistan — Take a desert of yellow-orange dust so flat it looks like Mars, with a freezing wind that blows so hard it can lift a large tent. Read more

Feb. 9--SOMEWHERE in a secluded cave on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, an al Qaeda brain trust is revising its target list. Read more

Feb. 9--SARASOTA -- The most serious threat to the United States does not come from powerful nations, but from weak and failed states where terrorists operate with impunity, according to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Read more

PARIS -- In many ways, it was a familiar scene: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, in Europe, meeting with U.S. allies about the war in Afghanistan. Read more

Feb. 8--TRAVERSE CITY -- U.S. Army Sgt. Dillon Black Foxx was outgoing and humble, and his mother remembers him as a caring child through the years. Read more

Feb. 8--SARASOTA -- The most serious threat to the U.S. comes from weak nations, where terrorists operate with impunity, said former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today in a lecture in Sarasota. Read more