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Afghan War Casualty Report: October 2020
At least 369 pro-government forces and 212 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in October, marking the highest civilian death toll in a single month since September 2019.
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At least 369 pro-government forces and 212 civilians were killed in Afghanistan in October,
marking the highest civilian death toll in a single month since September 2019.
Afghan security forces remove a damaged police vehicle from the site of a car bomb that targeted the provincial governor’s convoy in Laghman Province on Oct. 5.Credit...Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse, Getty Images
By Fahim Abed and Fatima Faizi
Published Oct. 8, 2020Updated Oct. 29, 2020
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.
Oct. 23-29, 2020
At least 63 pro-government forces and 78 civilians were killed during the past week. The deadliest attack took place in Kabul, the capital, where a deadly explosion struck a tutoring center in Kabul’s Dasht-e-Barchi area, a Shiite neighborhood, killing 40 civilians and wounding 70 others. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. In Nimruz Province, the Taliban attacked and captured a military base in Delaram District, killing 26 soldiers and taking five others prisoner. All weapons and equipment in the base were stolen by insurgents and none of the soldiers there survived the attack.
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Oct. 16-22, 2020
At least 145 pro-government forces and 57 civilians were killed during the past week. The deadliest attack took place in the northeast province of Takhar, where at least 55 police officers were killed, including the provincial deputy police chief, when a unit of national police and police special forces was ambushed by the Taliban. In the same province, an airstrike against a mosque killed 12 children and wounded 14 civilians, though the Ministry of Defense denied that any civilians were killed. In neighboring Badakhshan, the Taliban conducted coordinated attacks against security forces in the province’s capital, Faizabad. Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Qatar are still locked in disagreement over what should be the framework of future negotiations.
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Oct. 9-15, 2020
At least 103 pro-government forces and 40 civilians were killed over the past week. The deadliest attacks took place in Helmand Province, where the Taliban carried out simultaneous attacks on Nawa and Nadali districts and the Babaji area of the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, where fighting continued for several days. Twenty officers were killed in Lashkar Gah and the surrounding areas. Local authorities claimed that 30 Taliban fighters were killed in counter attacks carried out by Afghan forces. In Baghlan Province, the Taliban attacked Gozargah-e-Noor District, where clashes continued for three hours. Nine police officers and five territorial army members were killed, and the insurgents captured the outpost and the weapons and equipment inside.
Oct. 2-8, 2020
At least 58 pro-government forces and 37 civilians were killed over the past week, as representatives from the Afghan government and the Taliban met in Doha to negotiate a framework for peace. The deadliest attack took place in Nangarhar Province, where a truck bomb targeted the district governor’s office in Ghanikhel District, killing 13 civilians and one police officer. An additional 42 people, including 39 civilians and three police officers, were wounded in the explosion, for which no one has claimed responsibility. Later in the week, in eastern Laghman Province, the Taliban carried out a car bomb on the convoy of the governor of Laghman, killing four security forces and four civilians. Two security forces and 28 civilians were also wounded.
Reporting was contributed by the following New York Times reporters: Najim Rahim from Kabul, Taimoor Shah from Kandahar, Zabihullah Ghazi from Nangarhar, Farooq Jan Mangal from Khost and Asadullah Timoory from Herat.
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