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 Wednesday, July 19, 2006

	Iraqis: 105 dead, 91 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 2 dead, 6 wounded
	Afghanis: none reported Coalition in Afghanistan: 1 dead, 2 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Baghdad:
#1: A car bomb exploded as a police patrol drove by the technology university in the central district of Rusafa, wounding three policemen. As bystanders and rescue workers gathered around the area, two more bombs exploded, killing five people and wounding another 17.	5	20
#2: The head of the justice office of the interior ministry, Major General Fakhr Abdel Hussein, was also shot dead by gunmen Wednesday in front of his home in the capital's upscale Mansur district.	1
#3: Gunmen kidnapped 20 employees of a government agency Wednesday that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines nationwide, and the organization has suspended its work until further notice, an official said. Employees of the Sunni Endowment were seized as they drove from Baghdad to their homes in Taji, just north of the capital, spokesman Mahdi al-Mashhadani said. He also said the agency would stop work effective immediately.
#3: Gunmen in the eastern suburb of Baghdad Jadida opened fire on a store selling vegetables, killing four people inside. They then planted explosives inside the store and blew it to pieces.	4
Gunmen shot dead four people in a market in the eastern New Baghdad district of the capital, a source at the Interior Ministry said. A few minutes later, a roadside bomb exploded near the market, killing three and wounding seven, the source added.	3	7
#4: Four policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in the Al-Baladiyat neighbourhood of southeast Baghdad, while four civilians were wounded when a bomb went off in their home in the town of Iskandiriyah, south of the capital.		8
#5: Six bodies were found in the Wahda neighborhood of Baghdad, shot in the head and showing signs of torture	6
#6: The three others were killed in smallscale attacks in Baghdad and Yousifiyah	3
#7: Seven people were killed and seven wounded in clashes in eastern Baghdad, police said.	7	7
#8: Two rockets exploded this afternoon in the Green Zone, which includes the US and British embassies. The US military said one Iraqi was killed and two other Iraqis were wounded.	1	2
Najaf:
#1: Gunmen in a car pulled up to a women's hair salon in the city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, and killed its owner, police said. Islamic militants have been blamed for attacks on barbers.	1
Balad:
#1: North of Baghdad, police in the town of Balad were at a loss to explain why gunmen burst into a woman's home, shot dead her son, and wounded her.	1	1
Rasheed:
#1: Gunmen stormed a market in a small town south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing three people in the second such raid in the area in three days, police said. Police and Iraqi troops killed two of the unidentified assailants and were now in control of the town of Rasheed, an officer added. Two policemen were among 11 people wounded.	5	11
Seven more Iraqis were killed and 11 others injured when gunmen attacked a marketplace in Alwat al-Rasheed south of Baghdad, a police source said. Three civilians, two policemen and two gunmen were killed in the attack, the source said.	7	11
#2: Four more policemen were killed in an insurgent ambush on their convoy in the Rasheed district, south of Baghdad.	4
Suwayrah:
#1: three more coprses, one of them headless, were found in the town of Suwayrah southeast of the capital, police said.	3
#2: Six bodies of men with gunshot wounds, with their hands bound and showing signs of torture, were picked up from the Tigris river in Suwayra, south of Baghdad, police said.	6
Karbala:
#1: Another body was found in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala further south.	1
Iskanariya:
#1: Four civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a house in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, a police source said.	4
Basra:
#1: A British soldier was wounded Tuesday when he came under attack by suspected Shiite militamen during a routine patrol in the main southern city of Basra, a British spokesman said, adding that the injuries were not life threatening.				1
Assailants slit the throats of a mother and her three children Wednesday in southern Iraq, where the family had fled to escape threats that they had cooperated with the Americans. The mother's sister was also slain in the savage attack, which occurred in an apartment in the southern city of Basra, police said. Five other family members were rescued before they bled to death.	5	5
Hartha:
#1: Two soldiers, a Dane and a Lithuanian, were injured in two separate incidents while on patrol in southern Iraq, the Danish military said Wednesday. Both soldiers were hit in the right shoulder by bullets while on patrol near Basra on Tuesday. The Danish military command in Copenhagen said both soldiers were not seriously wounded, but that it would investigate the incidents. The Lithuanian soldier was hit while on patrol in Hartha, north of Basra, and was flown by helicopter to a field hospital.				1
Qurnah:
#1: Two soldiers, a Dane and a Lithuanian, were injured in two separate incidents while on patrol in southern Iraq, the Danish military said Wednesday. Both soldiers were hit in the right shoulder by bullets while on patrol near Basra on Tuesday. The Danish military command in Copenhagen said both soldiers were not seriously wounded, but that it would investigate the incidents. The Danish soldier was hit near a police station in Qurnah, and was also transported to a field hospital.				1
Mahmudiya:
#1: Eighteen bodies, including those of three policemen, were found in Mahmudiya on Wednesday, police said. Most had been shot and bore signs of torture, an increasingly common feature of the low-level sectarian civil war ravaging the country.	18
#2: (near) To the south, clashes erupted between gunmen and Iraqi security forces in the tense area between Youssifiyah and Mahmoudiya, another flashpoint of sectarian tension. A member of a Shiite political organization and two of his bodyguards were gunned down Wednesday on the highway between the two towns, police said.	3
#3: One person was killed and five were kidnapped Wednesday in Mahmoudiya, police said.	1
#4: Four mortar rounds landed on central Mahmudiya, a town about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, killing a two-month-old baby and wounding a woman and another child, police said.	1	2
#5: Clashes broke out between gunmen and Iraqi security forces and army troops in Mahmudiya, police said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Kirkuk:
#1: In the northern oil capital of Kirkuk, a bomb outside a cafe killed four people and wounded 16, police said. Various ethnic groups, notably Kurds and Sunni Arabs, are disputing control of the city, which sits on top of a major oilfield.	4	16
#2: A roadside bombing killed two people in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	2
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed a Kurdish man on Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, police said.	1
#2: One policeman was wounded when gunmen ambushed a police patrol in central Mosul, police said.		1
#3: The body of an unidentified man was found with gunshot wounds in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, said police Colonel Kareem Khalaf.	1
Kut:
#1: Elsewhere in Iraq, police found seven bullet-riddled bodies dumped in water sanitation tanks near Kut, about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.	7
One Salvadoran soldier died Wednesday and another was wounded in a bombing near Kut, southwest of Baghdad, his country's defense minister said. It was the third fatality among Salvadoran troops since the Central American nation sent forces in 2003.			1	1
Quim:
#1:  suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a U.S. checkpoint in the town of Qaim, western Baghdad, causing a number of U.S. casualties, police said. The U.S. military said it was unaware of the incident.			at least	2
An Anbar Prv:
#1: A Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died as a result of a non-hostile incident in Al Anbar Province July 18.			1
IRAQ TOTALS	105	91	2	6
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
#1:  Hundreds of Afghan and coalition soldiers reclaimed one southern town from the Taliban without incident Tuesday and were planning to recapture another, an Afghan official said. The troops descended on Naway-i-Barakzayi, taking back the town after Taliban fighters fled, said Amir Mohammed Akhunzada, the deputy governor of Helmand province. Insurgents torched a police compound, a health clinic and a school before leaving, he said.
#2: Afghan and coalition soldiers today reclaimed the second of two southern towns that had been overrun in recent days by the Taliban, an Afghan army chief said. "Our troops launched an attack on Garmser, and thank God we captured it," Roufi told The Associated Press. He declined to provide details.
#3: A coalition soldier has been killed and two others hurt in fighting in southern Afghanistan. The military said in a statement that the soldier was killed yesterday in Uruzgan province, which is a hotbed of Taliban activity.			1	2
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	0	0	1	2
Note: the above news reports may overlap in some cases. We've done our best not to count the same casualties twice. Where vague reports suggest "many" or "several" we count a minimum 2.
OTHER NEWS
#1: Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if U.S. and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there - a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.
#2: A sabotage attack along Iraq's vital northern oil export route to Turkey 10 days ago fractured both pipelines and repairs will take at least another week, an Oil Ministry official said on Wednesday. The official said on Wednesday that the damage entailed significant repairs to both lines and that flows were unlikely to resume for at least a week.
#3: The United Nations sounded an urgent alarm on Iraq on Wednesday, saying a surge in sectarian bloodshed is a catastrophe that risks wrecking the U.S.-backed unity government just two months after it took office.

 

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