At least 21 pro-government forces and 22 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week.
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 21 pro-government forces and 22 civilians were killed in Afghanistan the past week. The deadliest attack took place in Kunduz Province, where the Taliban attacked a security outpost in the Telawka area of the Sixth Police District in Kunduz city, the provincial capital, killing eight soldiers and wounding four others. The Taliban captured the outpost and seized weapons and equipment, including two Humvees. In Nangarhar Province, unknown gunmen entered a plaster factory in the Mar Ghondi area of Surkh Rod District, killing seven workers who were Hazara. The gunmen first tied the hands and legs of all seven civilians and then shot them with a suppressed pistol. Local officials in Nangarhar believed that the attack was carried out by the Islamic State affiliated group. In another attack in the province, three women who worked at a local television network were shot and killed in two different attacks in the First Police District of Jalalabad city, the provincial capital. All three women were working in the dubbing section of the television network. Another woman was also wounded in the attack. [Read the Afghan War Casualty Report from previous months.] March 4 Badghis Province: four security forces killed Four pro-government militia members were killed in a Taliban ambush in the village of Band-e-Qashqah in Ab-Kamari District. The militia members were on patrol when they came under attack.
