These reports (each with a reputable news link) detail some of the many dead and wounded among Iraqi and Afghani military and civilians, as well as Coalition dead and wounded. We are not aware of any source that authoritatively and consistently compiles or counts these kinds of reports. The following news links were compiled by Evan D.

Note on July 16, 2006:  Our hearts go out to the people of Israel and Lebanon as they suffer through the terrible recent violence there.  We regret we do not have time to track the death and mayhem there.  Like the prayers of so many others, our prayers are vague and faceless: God be with them all. (For detailed daily news updates on the Middle East, try the blog, News About the Middle East.)

In the news on Sunday, July 16, 2006

	Iraqis: 85 dead, 117 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 3 dead, 6 wounded
	Afghanis: 53 dead, 29 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 1 dead, 1 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: A 49th Military Police Brigade service member died at approximately 11:25 a.m. today when the vehicle he was riding in struck a roadside bomb near Sadr City, an area in northeast Baghdad.			1
#2: Nashat Mahir al-Salman, 75, a former member of Iraq's Olympic committee, was left unharmed in the capital's Baladiyat neighborhood, Iraq's Sport Journalist Union said. There was no word on the other hostages, including Ahmed al-Hijiya, chairman of the Olympic National Committee.
Five Iraqi sports officials have been released in Baghdad, but gunmen are still holding the country's Olympic Committee chief and many others.
#3: In Baghdad, a bomb hidden in a trash bag exploded in a commercial area of the Karradah district, killing four people and wounding 21 others, police said.	4	21
#4: One person was killed and two were wounded when a bomb exploded near a police patrol in north Baghdad, police said.	1	2
#5: Two people were killed and 30 wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a gathering of labourers in southeastern Baghdad, police said. The target of the explosion was not clear.	2	30
#6: (N.E. of) Four people were killed and 10 wounded when two mortar rounds landed on al-Rasool village 30 km northeast of Baghdad, police said	4	10
#7: A blast inside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's Saidiya district wounded three people, police said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast.		3
#8: The head of Iraq's North Oil Company, Adel Qazaz, was kidnapped in Baghdad on Sunday, an Oil Ministry official said.
#9: Eight people were killed and 12 others wounded when a bomb exploded in a crowded marketplace in the central Baghdad district of Keradah, eyewitnesses said.	8	12
#10: In south-east Baghdad, two people were killed and five others injured when an explosives- laden car was detonated at an Iraqi army checkpoint, a police source said, adding three of the injured were Iraqi troops.	2	5
#11: BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed after his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said.			1
Muqdadiyah:
#1: Drive-by shootings also killed one person in Muqdadiyah, northeast of the capital.	1
#2: It added in a statement that three civilians, including a women, were killed and two wounded when unknown militants opened fire in a market in the city of Miqdadiya in the province.	3	2
Gunmen killed Faris Abdul Latif, a former member of the ousted Baath Party, along with his son in a market in Muqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. A woman passerby was also killed in the attack.	3
#3: It added that in another incident, a security personnel was killed in an armed assault in the area of Abi Saida in Miqdadiya village.	1
Sweira:
#1: In a separate attack, gunmen attacked a police checkpoint on the Kut-Baghdad highway near Sweira, 45 kilometres south of the capital, killing two policemen, a police source said.	2
Iskandiriya:
#1: South of Baghdad, an Iraqi soldier has been killed while attempting to remove a bomb placed in a cafe in the town of Iskandiriyah.	1
Baqubab:
#1: Gunmen freed a dozen wounded prisoners and shot dead four policemen in an audacious raid on a major hospital north of Baghdad on Sunday, police said. Police said three mortar rounds crashed into the grounds of Baquba General Hospital before a group of about eight men armed with assault rifles burst into the detention ward and freed 13 prisoners, some insurgents others criminals, being treated there. Two of the prisoners were later captured, police said, adding a search was now under way for the others.	4
#2: In a separate incident in Baquba, gunmen shot dead three people in a marketplace, police sources said.	3
Dinwaniya:
#1: The body of a police officer was found in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. He was one of four policeman abducted on Saturday, police added.	1
Balad:
#1: Two bodies were found shot dead with signs of torture in two separate incidents in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday and Sunday, police said.	2
Tikrit:
#1: (near) Gunmen killed three people near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	3
#2: (near) In a separate incident, US troops shot dead an Iraqi civilian driving on the same highway, the source said, without giving further details.	1
Tuz Khurmatu:
#1: AT least 13 people were killed and 25 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a coffee shop close to a Shiite mosque in a northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu, police said. "The bomber wearing an explosive belt walked into the coffee shop and blew himself up," said Colonel Abbas Mohammed Amin, police chief of Tuz Khurmatu, 75km from the oil hub of Kirkuk. Rescuers are currently searching through the rubble for survivors and the death toll could climb.	(see update below)
(update) A suicide bomber detonated explosives Sunday inside a northern Iraqi cafe popular with Shiites, killing 25 people and injuring 23, an Iraqi general said. The attack occurred just after sunset at a cafe in the outdoor market in Tuz Khormato	25	23
Basra:
#1: One British soldier was killed and another wounded during an operation to seize a suspected "terrorist" in Iraq's restive southern city of Basra early on Sunday, the British military said. British military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge said two British soldiers were wounded when they came under small arms fire. They were evacuated to hospital where one later died.			1	1
#2: (S.W. of) In Basra, British military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge said two other soldiers sustained "minor" injuries when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle. "They were on a routine operation moving from one location to another when a roadside bomb detonated against their vehicle and injured the two," he said.Burbridge said the incident took place on road to Al-Zubair, southwest of Basra.				2
#3: Residents heard several dozen explosions from apparent mortar attacks on British bases around the Shi'ite southern city of Basra. A British military spokesman confirmed at least one raid had taken place. Residents said it was one of the heaviest such attacks they could recall in recent times.
Kirkuk:
#1: In the northern city of Kirkuk, two barbers were killed in a drive-by shooting, police said.	2
#2: The body of a dead person was found shot dead with signs of torture on Saturday in Kirkuk, police said.	1
#3: Also in Kirkuk, a security source requesting anonymity said three US soldiers were wounded in confrontations with militants, as well as two Iraqi officers.				3
#4: The same source said three Iraqi soldier were wounded when an explosive device blew up as their patrol vehicle passed by the Kirkuk-Riyadh road		3
A gunman was killed and two wounded in clashes with Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers in Kirkuk in northern Iraq. The gunbattle erupted after the gunmen ambushed an army major in his car, wounding him, police said	1
#5: (near) Gunmen killed two truck drivers and abducted a third on the main road between Baghdad and Kirkuk, police said.	2
#6: (near) In a separate incident, the body of an Iraqi man kidnapped in an industrial zone in Howeija, 45 kilometres south of Kirkuk, was found later in the same area, police said.	1
Mosul:
#1: Drive-by shootings also killed one person in Mosul	1
#2: The bodies of three people were found shot dead on Saturday in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said	3
The bodies of three women with gunshot wounds were found in the northern city of Mosul, a medical source said.
#3: A car bomb targeting a U.S. patrol killed three women and wounded six in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	3	6
IRAQ TOTALS	85	117	3	6
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
#1:  At least 37 Taliban rebels have been killed in fighting with Afghan and US-led coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday, taking the death toll to almost 100 in three days. "Twenty seven Taliban were killed during a joint Afghan and coalition operation in Sangin district of Helmand province," said Mohammad Nabi Mullahkhil, the police chief in Helmand.	37
"Coalition forces killed 10 Taliban and drove the others out, but it is difficult to say if the remainder are still nearby," Lundy said.
#2: Elsewhere in Uruzgan, Afghan and coalition soldiers repelled an attack by 20 insurgents, killing one, the U.S. military said.	1
#3: Militants also attacked an Afghan army convoy in southern Zabul province's Shinkay district Friday, sparking a gunbattle that killed four Taliban, said local army commander Razzaq Khan. Soldiers detained one Taliban.	4
#4: Outside Zabul's provincial capital early Saturday, a Taliban rocket-propelled grenade attack on a convoy delivering supplies to U.S.-led coalition forces killed one bystander and wounded a truck driver, said police chief Noor Mohammed. Police responding to the attack wounded two militants and captured another.	1	3
#5: The military base Canadian soldiers call home in Afghanistan has come under another rocket attack. Two rockets were fired on the Kandahar Airfield late Saturday evening, local time. No one was injured by the blasts.
#6: A suicide bomber has killed four other people and injured 23 in the Afghan town of Gardez, capital of the troubled southern border province of Paktia. He blew himself up at a checkpoint outside a government building in the town, an eyewitness said.	4	23
#7: A ROADSIDE bomb blast killed six Afghan soldiers and wounded three more in western Herat province, an Afghani army commander said. Abdul Wahab Walizada said the explosion targeted a joint Afghani-coalition patrol in Herat's Shindand district, destroying one vehicle. Six soldiers travelling in the vehicle were killed and three others wounded, he said.	6	3
#8: A Canadian reconnaissance platoon ran into an ambush Saturday, coming under attack by rockets and small arms. What had started as a mission to avoid engagement with Taliban and Taliban supporters turned into a 10-minute firefight. As per orders, the platoon pulled back soon after the insurgents fire stopped.
#9: One Coalition Soldier was killed during a firefight between a Coalition patrol and extremist fighters in the Day Chopan District of Zabul Province on July 16. The unit was conducting a combat patrol of the area and received small arms fire from enemy fighters.  Coalition joint fires responded to the extremist’s position during the battle.			1
#10: According to a statement from the military in Helmand, British forces are under a sustained attack from numerous positions in the Nawzad district government compound they have been defending for 18 days. In that time, they have been attacked 27 times. "Our soldiers are showing considerable restraint but we may be required to return fire soon," a spokesman said. The troops on the ground from the 3rd Para Battle Group are said to be trying to establish whether the hospital was clear of patients or civilians. One soldier has been injured but not seriously.				1
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	53	29	1	1
OTHER NEWS
#1: Militant Kurdish separatists killed seven Turkish soldiers and a village guard when they attacked security forces near the town of Eruh in southeast Turkey on Sunday, the semi-official Anatolian news agency said.

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