These daily logs detail some of the many dead and wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both military and civilian, of all nationalities. We are not aware of any source that authoritatively and consistently compiles or counts these kinds of reports.

Note: These news reports overlap in some cases. We've done our best to count a casualty only once. Where vague reports suggest "many" "some" or "several" we count a minimum of 2. These logs were compiled by Evan D. 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 Sunday, July 23, 2006

	Iraqis: 89 dead, 132 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 1 dead, 0 wounded
	Afghanis: 23 dead, 4 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 0 dead, 6 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/23/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: The Baghdad bombing occurred when a suicide driver detonated a minivan in the Mahdi Army stronghold of Sadr City at the entrance to the Jameelah market, packed with shoppers and vendors on the first day of the Iraqi work week. An Iraqi army statement said 34 people were killed and 73 were wounded.	34	73
#2: Eight more people were killed and 20 wounded when a second bomb exploded two hours later at a municipal government building in Sadr City, the Iraqi army said.	8	20
#3: Before dawn Sunday, Iraqi troops and U.S. advisers raided Sadr City and the mostly Shiite district of Shula, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The sounds of explosions and bursts of automatic fire echoed through the heart of the capital. Two hostages were freed in the Sadr City operation. Two people were arrested in Shula, officials said.
#4: Gunmen killed Hamid al-Nouman, a tribal leader, in a drive by shooting in the southern Dora district of the capital, police said.	1
Baqubah:
#1: These killings continued on Sunday, when five civilians were gunned down in separate attacks in the Baquba region north of Baghdad.	5
Moqtadiya:
#1: Further north, in Moqtadiya, four Shiites who were kidnapped on Saturday were found murdered, according to the interior minister.	4
Aziziya:
#1: In further violence, gunmen ambushed a fuel truck, killing the driver and two of his assistants in Aziziya, 80 km south of the Iraq capital, police said. The truck caught fire, but fire fighters were able to bring the blaze under control.	3
Kut:
#1: In Kut, 170 km from here, an Iraqi translator working for US-led coalition forces was killed after being abducted in front of his home Saturday evening. Iraqi police sources said that the body of Nader Nasser was found east of the city with gunshot wounds and signs of torture.	1
Suwayra:
#1: Iraqi police retrieved the bodies of seven people, including a 13-year-old boy, from the Tigris river in Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. The bodies were handcuffed and blindfolded with shotgun wounds in the head and chest, police added.	7
Hisayba:
#1: Gunmen killed Abdulillah al-Rawi, a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the main Sunni bloc, in the town of Hisayba, 350 km west of Baghdad, the Civil Defence directory said.	1
Mussayab:
#1: A civilian from one family was killed and three others wounded when a mortar round landed at their house in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1	3
Kirkuk:
#1: In Kirkuk, a car bomb detonated at midday near a courthouse in the city market district, killing 17 and wounding 30, according to police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir.	17	30
#2: In the area of Nehyat al-Riyadh, a mortar shell hit the market area, injuring two civilians who were transferred later for al-Hwuaijah hospital for treatment, an Iraqi police source told KUNA.		2
#3: Meanwhile, another civilian was injured when a timed-bomb exploded in the Kirkuk-Hwuaijah highway. The explosion also damaged a civilian car.		1
Mosul:
#1: Two Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the army said.		2
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a road-side bomb exploded near a military convoy in Mosul city in northern Iraq, said a Military source Sunday.	2
#2: Gunmen killed a man in Mosul, police said	1
#3: Mahmoud Homadi, a judge, was wounded when gunmen attacked him in Mosul, police said.		1
#4: Gunmen shot dead a taxi driver in the city of Mosul 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police sources said.	1
An Anbar Prv:
#1: A Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored division died due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province July 22.			1
Ramadi:
#1: In a separate incident in Ramadi, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraqi soldiers conducting a census were fired on from a mosque with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, a coalition statement said. The soldiers later entered the mosque, arrested two suspects and found a small cache of guns and bomb-making equipment.
#2: Gunmen attacked three trucks carrying fuel on the main road west of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, killing the drivers, police said.	3
IRAQ TOTALS	89	132	1	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/23/2006
#1: Taliban militants have killed three policemen and kidnapped three others after they attacked a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan. A police company commander was shot dead with two colleagues after the rebels attacked their post in Ghazni late Saturday, a provincial police official said. "The Taliban attacked and killed three policemen and kidnapped three others," the official said Sunday on condition of anonymity	3
#2: A home-made bomb exploded near the US embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul late Saturday but caused no damage or casualties. NATO-led troops found and defused a second one nearby Sunday.
#3: In the southeast on Sunday, three coalition soldiers and an Afghan soldier were wounded in a roadside bomb attack, an Afghan army commander said.		1		3
#4: Scores of British soldiers with the NATO-led mission and Afghan forces attacked several villages in a pre-dawn operation outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand, where Taliban fighters were hiding, Helmand's deputy governor said. "Government and British forces killed 19 Taliban and arrested 17 others, including two Pakistanis, in the attacks," Amir Mohammad Akhundzada told Reuters, adding there were no casualties among Afghan and British soldiers.	19
#5: Three Danish soldiers were injured in a mine blast in southern Afghanistan, the Danish military command said Sunday. The mine exploded late Saturday while the soldiers were moving into an area they were designated to patrol. A British helicopter evacuated the soldiers to a field hospital at Camp Bastion. The injuries were not life-threatening, the military said. The incident occurred after a group of Danish soldiers were engaged in an exchange of fire with suspected Taliban fighters. The Danish troops returned fire and also received air support from allied forces, the Danish military command statement said. No Danish soldiers were injured in that incident and the military had no immediate information of injuries on the Taliban side.				3
#6: The intelligence chief of an Afghan district on a major drug trafficking route to Tajikistan has been caught with 33 kilograms (73 pounds) of heroin in a government vehicle, an official said on Sunday. The intelligence director of Rustaq district in northern Takhar province on the border with Tajikistan was arrested last week, national secret police chief Abdul Wahab Khetab said in the capital Kabul.
#7: And a bomb blast on a highway in Khost province near the border with Pakistan killed one Afghan and wounded three others, police said.	1	3
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	23	4	0	6
OTHER NEWS
#1: More than 250 oil ministry officials, workers and oil security have been assassinated since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, an Iraqi oil ministry spokesman said Sunday. "The ministry has lost 100 of its senior officials, engineers, experts and technicians, as well as 150 personnel from its oil protection force," Assem Jihad told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone.
#2: terrorists dispatched by the clerical regime blew up for the second time in the past three days the water pipelines from the Tigris River to Ashraf City, at a location 18 kms to the west of Ashraf. The three masked terrorists drew weapons on locals who saw them and fled the scene with a dark blue Opel (Vauxhall), the license plate of which had been covered.