The following report is updated on Thursdays and compiles all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan for the month.... The report includes government claims of insurgent casualty figures, but in most cases these cannot be independently verified by The Times.... Both sides routinely inflate casualty totals for their opponents. Analysis in previous reports refers to “ pro-government forces ” in order to include casualties for U.S. and coalitio

The following report compiles all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan from the past seven days.... The report includes government claims of insurgent casualty figures, but in most cases these cannot be independently verified by The Times.... 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 following report compiles all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan from the past seven days.... The report includes government claims of insurgent casualty figures, but in most cases these cannot be independently verified by The Times.... Both sides routinely inflate casualty totals for their opponents.At least 64 pro-government forces and 26 civilians were killed in Afghanistan the past week....

, chronicling almost every chapter of a war that dragged on nearly 20 years....

unending war. When he visited the government offices in his province, Kunduz, he was told there would

help the arriving Afghans, say some resettlement groups.... These organisations were forced to cut

crises is coldly brushing off Afghans fleeing war, political repression and grinding poverty in their

That triggered a frantic U.S. effort to evacuate American civilians, Afghan allies and others from

its war strategy against the Taleban to concentrate forces around the most critical areas like Kabul

Afghans just as the United States withdraws from a war that succeeded in punishing al Qaeda following