The following reports compile all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan. It is necessarily incomplete as many local officials refuse to confirm casualty information. The toll here does not generally include claims of insurgents killed by the government, because of the difficulty of verifying such claims. Similarly, the reports do not include attacks on the government claimed by the Taliban. Both sides routinely inflate casualties of their opponents.

The greatly decreased death toll among security forces, 42, indicated that clashes between the insurgents and the government decreased in the past week, but a larger number of civilians, 73, lost their lives — particularly due to a massive bombing in the capital, the first major attack in more than a month. Most of the reported attacks were small in scale, also unlike previous weeks, with few casualties.

The heavy fighting in Jaghori and Malestan districts in Ghazni Province also quieted, with the situation apparently stalemated there. Most businesses and schools remained closed, and residents who fled have not returned. But the Taliban did not continue to push to overrun the districts, which are populated by the Hazara minority. Heavy government reinforcements were sent in but apparently did not yet go on the offensive.

Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the American commander, visited Ghazni city on Wednesday and a rocket was fired into the city while he was meeting the governor. Officials said it landed far from the meeting place.