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 74 pro-government forces and 26 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week. The deadliest attack took place in Badghis Province, where the Taliban completely wiped out an Afghan army company, killing 16 soldiers and taking 40 others prisoner. Thirteen civilians were killed by American airstrikes in the district of Hesarak in Nangarhar, and six Afghan soldiers were killed in an American airstrike in Oruzgan Province, after Afghan soldiers targeted a joint convoy of Afghan and American forces. Officials later called the incident “a mistake between forces.”

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

March 14 Badghis Province: one soldier killed

Dozens of Taliban fighters attacked military outposts in Qades District, killing one soldier and wounding four others. Local authorities claimed that four Taliban fighters were also killed and 11 others were wounded.

March 14 Sar-i-Pul Province: two local police officers killed

The Taliban attacked two local police outposts in the village of Engishka in Sayyad District, killing two local police officers and wounding four others.