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 25 pro-government forces and 103 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week. The deadliest attack took place in Kabul, where a suicide bomber blew himself up in the men’s section of a wedding hall, killing at least 80 people and wounding nearly 200 others. In Balkh Province, a roadside bomb hit a vehicle in the Qala-e-Barbar area of Dawlat Abad District, killing 12 civilians, including five children and four women. Two American soldiers were killed on Wednesday, bringing American military fatalities in the country this year to 14.

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

Aug. 21 Faryab Province: two American service members killed

Two American service members from an Army Special Forces unit were killed while carrying out an operation in restive Faryab Province in the north, and most likely died during a firefight, according to Afghan and American officials.