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:  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 Monday, July 17, 2006

	Iraqis: 68 dead, 76 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 3 dead, 4 wounded
	Afghanis: 21 dead, 25 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 1 dead, 11 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/17/2006
Baghdad:
#1: Meanwhile, a bomb killed two people and wounded nine Monday in east Baghdad, according to police.	2	9
#2: A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died from wounds today at approximately 12:55 p.m. after being hit by small-arms fire in western Baghdad earlier in the day.			1
#3: A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier was killed at approximately 4:30 p.m. today when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad.			1
Mahmudiya:
#1: There were conflicting accounts from officials as residents and police reported the sound of clashes continuing and roadblocks thrown up around the town of Mahmudiya, which lies on the main highway south from Baghdad to the Shi'ite holy cities. The Defence Ministry spokesman in Baghdad said 42 people were killed by two car bombs. The mayor, Muayyad Fadhil, and another resident told Reuters by telephone that gunmen stormed the market from a Shi'ite suburb of Mahmudiya, where the population is mixed between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. A local hospital said it had received 40 bodies and 48 wounded. A local police commander said 55 were dead. And Iraqiya state television ran an unsourced flash putting the toll at 70.	(see below)
Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Abdul Aziz Mohammed criticised media reports and said 42 had died. Members of parliament from the Shi'ite Islamist faction led by militant cleric Moqtada al-Sadr quit Monday's session, describing the Mahmudiya incident as an ambush against a Shi'ite funeral convoy heading between the capital and a traditional cemetery at Najaf. Some said police had failed in their duty.But police Colonel Iyad Mohammed told Reuters from Mahmudiya that a series of explosions, reported by residents, were mortars falling on the town, followed by a rampage by gunmen through the market -- a rare tactic in Iraq against civilian targets, although seen a week ago in Baghdad. He said 55 people were killed and 58 wounded. Mayor Fadhil said: "There was a mortar attack. Then gunmen came from ... the eastern side of the town. They came into the market and opened fire at random on the people shopping."	(see below)
#2: (update) The local hospital said it took in 56 dead bodies and 67 wounded.	56	67
Baqubah:
#1: Also in Iraq's restive city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, six people were killed in several incidents, police said.	6
Diwaniya:
#1: Two U.S. soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their convoy in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.				2
Ad-Divania:
#1: Two Ukrainian military specialists were wounded in Iraq on Monday when an improvised mine exploded, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reports. The press service says the incident occurred at 06:00 near the city of Ad-Divania in the province of Kadisia. Ukrainian Lieutenant Colonel Serhiy Kolobylin, the head of the department for the assistance to the civil police, and Major Serhiy Tischenko, a logistics officer, were in a column of the Slovak contingent in Iraq in a Toyota Land Cruiser car when a mine detonated under the car. The Ukrainian officers were wounded by shrapnel. The lives of the officers are not in danger, the press service says.				2
Tuz Khurmatu :
#1: (update: up from 13) Meanwhile, the death toll from the Tuz Khurmatu suicide bombing on Sunday rose to 28, police said.	3
(We reported 25 yesterday, so we will add 3 today.)
Haditha:
#1: Gunmen killed Laith al-Rawi, local leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of the main Sunni parties, in Haditha, 240 km (150 miles) northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday, the Islamic Party said.	1
An Anbar Prv:
#1: (Ramadi?) A Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today.			1
IRAQ TOTALS	68	76	3	4
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/17/2006
#1: A suicide bomber destroyed an Afghan government office in the southern province of Helmand on Monday killing at least three officials, witnesses said. The suicide bomber struck inside the compound of a government building complex and opposite the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province which has been the focus of heavy fighting between U.S.-led forces and militants. "The three people killed apart from the suicide bomber are government officials including the head of justice department of Helmand," said Mahaiuddin, a spokesman for the provincial governor.	4
A suicide attacker killed two top justice officials and a third employee in their southern provincial office on Monday	4
#2: Foreign troops are engaged in a big offensive against militants in the south, where a NATO peacekeeping force will take over from the U.S.-led coalition at the end of the month. Coalition forces said that in addition to the deaths of the four suspected al Qaeda members, another three people were captured during the raid in Khost province, east of Kabul. Residents in the town told Reuters one of those killed was a cleric.	4
#3: In a separate incident in Khost province, unidentified gunmen kidnapped 40 men from a village near the border with Pakistan overnight after a brief clash in which two women were wounded, Khost's police chief Mohammad Ayoub told Reuters. He said the gunmen infiltrated the area from Pakistan where they went back after seizing the men from Sabiri village, which is largely pro-government.		2
#4: Also on Monday, three Afghan soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their convoy in Girishk district of Helmand. Taliban fighters had also taken control in a thinly populated southern district of Helmand, a member of parliament said.	3
#5: (update) A suicide bomber struck in the east, killing four Afghan civilians and wounding 23, including a journalist, near a military checkpoint in the Paktia provincial capital of Gardez, the Interior Ministry said.	5	23
#6: Taliban-linked militants gunned down an Afghan laborer working for a U.S. military base in southeast Afghanistan, a press release of the American troops said Monday.	1
#7: A British helicopter launched a precision-guided missile at a hospital in Afghanistan after troops on the ground came under machine-gun fire from the building, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Monday. The incident happened yesterday in the town of Nawzad
#8: Militants blew up a Pakistani diesel fuel truck outside a police station in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, police said. No casualties were reported. The truck entered Afghanistan from Pakistan on Saturday and was bound for the capital, Kabul, with a full load of fuel when a remote control-detonated bomb struck the vehicle, said local police Gen. Abdul Basir Salangi. The truck exploded in a ball of flames but the driver was unharmed, Salangi said. Firefighters took more than half an hour to bring the blaze under control.
#9: A coalition soldier was killed and 11 others wounded during heavy fighting against Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan on Monday, U.S.-led forces said. Foreign troops operating in Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province came under heavy fire after attacking and destroying a truck which militants were loading with mortar equipment, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.			1	11
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	21	25	1	11

 

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