At least 28 pro-government forces and 33 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan so far this month.
The following report compiles all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan for the past week. 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.
[Read the Afghan War Casualty Report from previous weeks.]
At least 28 pro-government forces and 33 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week. The deadliest attack took place in Paktia Province, where the Taliban advanced on Afghan border force security outposts in Dandi Patan District, killing 14 soldiers and wounding three others. Local authorities claimed that more than 30 Taliban fighters were killed and dozens of others were wounded. In Kandahar Province, a civilian vehicle struck a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban in the Khushkroad area of Arghistan District, killing nine civilians and wounding five others.
June 4 Kabul Province: one civilian killed
A bomb detonated in a bazaar area in Qarabagh District, killing one civilian and wounding three others.
June 3 Badghis Province: one security force killed
A pro-government militia member was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in the village of Chashma-e-Shirin in Qala-e-Naw City, the provincial capital.
June 3 Paktia Province: four police officers killed
The police chief of Said Karam District was killed along with three other police officers when a roadside bomb detonated in the Chino area of the district. The Taliban had already attacked security outposts in the area and the police chief was part of a group of reinforcements heading to the outpost. Four officers were also wounded in the explosion.
