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 death toll greatly increased this week among pro-government forces, to 79, a figure that includes five security contractors killed in a brazen attack on their base in Kabul, and three American Special Forces soldiers killed by a roadside bomb, the worst loss of American life in a year. Civilian deaths were 54, many of them from airstrikes — including 22 members of one family in Helmand Province.

[Read the Afghan War Casualty Report for Nov. 16-22, 2018]

Nov. 29 Herat Province: one police officer killed

At least 40 members of two Taliban groups were killed in ckashes between the main Taliban group leaded by Mullah Haibatullah and a splinter group leaded by Mullah Rasul in Shindand District. Afghan forces were deployed to the area to suppress the fighting. One police officer was killed.