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 112 pro-government forces and 69 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week. The deadliest attacks took place in Farah Province, where a passenger bus traveling from was hit by a roadside bomb in Balaboluk District, killing at least 35 civilians, women and children among them, and wounding more than a dozen others. Elsewhere, a Taliban attack in the Belcheragh District of Faryab Province resulted in the deaths of eight commandos and 14 members of the territorial army. In Kandahar Province, two American soldiers were killed in an insider attack. The attacker was arrested and is currently in the custody of the United States forces in Afghanistan. Earlier this week, the United Nations announced in a report that nearly 1,400 civilians in Afghanistan have died in the first six months of 2019, attributing 52% of those deaths to Afghan forces and their allies, whose reliance on aerial operations has had particularly lethal effects on civilians.

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

Aug. 1 Kabul Province: two police officers killed

An I.E.D. exploded in Kabul City’s 15th Police District, killing two police officers and wounded three others.

Aug. 1 Kunduz Province: two civilians killed

During a wedding ceremony in the village of Qaymaqchi in Kunduz City, the provincial capital, a group of Taliban fighters were targeted by an airstrike, killing five Taliban fighters. The insurgents then began firing at people, killing two civilians and wounding three others.