The following report compiles all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan from the past seven days. It is necessarily incomplete as many local officials refuse to confirm casualty information. The report includes government claims of insurgent casualty figures, but in most cases these cannot be independently verified by The Times. Similarly, the reports do not include Taliban claims for their attacks on the government unless they can be verified. Both sides routinely inflate casualty totals for their opponents.

At least 97 pro-government forces and 35 civilians were killed over the last week of fighting in Afghanistan. The deadliest attack took place on Wednesday in Kabul, the Afghan capital, where a car bomb targeted two government buildings, killing 14 people. Elsewhere, in Jowzjan Province, 11 security forces were killed when the Taliban attacked and captured a military base in the Khanaqa District. Ten pro-government militia members and one police officer were killed, and insurgents escaped the area after seizing all the weapons and equipment inside of the base.

[Read the Afghan War Casualty Report from previous weeks.]

Aug. 8 Herat Province: one police officer killed

One police officer was shot and killed and another was wounded by two gunmen on a motorcycle in Herat City, the provincial capital.

Aug. 8 Kunduz Province: two police officers killed

The Taliban attacked a security outpost in Khanabad District, killing two police officers and seizing all weapons and equipment inside. During the attack, the rest of the officers on duty were retrieving food.