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 28 pro-government forces and one civilian were killed in Afghanistan during the past week, in the quietest week of attacks since The Times began counting casualties in September 2018. The deadliest attack took place in Ghazni Province, when an airstrike mistakenly targeted an outpost of pro-government militia members, killing nine and wounding three others. It was not clear that the airstrike was carried out by Afghan or American air power.

The war in Afghanistan killed almost 4,000 civilians last year, including a record number of children, according to United Nation’s annual report on Afghan civilian casualties, making it the single deadliest year for Afghan civilians since the U.N. began documenting casualties in 2009. The single biggest cause of civilian casualties was suicide bombings and related attacks by insurgents, the report found.

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

Feb. 28 Kandahar Province: two police officers killed

Two unknown armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on police in the Barodarwaza area of Kandahar City, killing two officers and wounding another. One of the attackers was shot and killed by police, the second one managed to escape from the area.