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.

Nearly 120 security forces and 10 civilians were killed in the past week, The deadliest attack took place in Badghis Province on Thursday, when the Taliban attacked Bala Murghab district center, killing at least 30 soldiers and police officers. At least 21 soldiers were taken prisoners and five security outposts were taken by insurgents. No reinforcements arrived despite many calls for support. In a separate incident, 15 soldiers were killed, seven others were wounded and two soldiers were taken prisoner when dozens of Taliban fighters attacked army outposts in the same district on Monday. In Oruzgan Province, local officials claimed that between 10 and 13 civilians were killed and five others were wounded in an American airstrike on a hotel located along the Oruzgan-Kandahar highway. The provincial governor’s office and the Kandahar police chief said there were no civilians killed in the airstrike.

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

April 4 Jowzjan Province: six police officers killed

The Taliban attacked a security outpost in Faizabad District, killing six police officers and wounding another. Local authorities claimed that four Taliban fighters were killed in the clashes. The attack was pushed back by Afghan forces.

April 4 Baghlan Province: one civilian killed

A doctor was killed and 18 civilians, including two women and two children, were wounded by an explosion inside a health facility in Pul-i-Kumri City’s First Police District.