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 119 pro-government forces and 26 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week, in a surge of violent attacks amid ongoing peace negotiations between American diplomats and the Taliban in Qatar. The deadliest attack took place in Helmand Province, where insurgents penetrated a military compound and killed at least 40 Afghan soldiers over 36 hours of fighting. The site was once a major base for United States forces, and an adjoining part of the compound still houses American troops. There were no American casualties.

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

March 7 Kabul Province: three civilians killed

Three civilians were killed and 31 others were wounded in Kabul when attackers launched mortar and rocket attacks on a crowd of people commemorating the 24th anniversary of the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, a Hazara leader. The Islamic State claimed credit for the attack. High-ranking government officials and politicians were present at the event. Abdul Latif Pedram, a presidential candidate, was among those wounded. The attackers fired mortars from a nearby house. Two attackers were killed and another was arrested by security forces.

March 7 Baghlan Province: two police officers killed

A police Humvee hit a roadside bomb in the village of Hussainkhel in Pul-i-Kumri City, the provincial capital. Two police officers were killed and another was wounded in the explosion.