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 Monday, July 24, 2006

Iraqis: 62 dead, 71 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 2 dead, 0 wounded Afghanis: 15 dead, 18 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 2 dead, 2 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/24/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: An Iraqi soldier was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the western Mansour district of Baghdad, police said.	1	3
#2: A civilian was killed and three policemen wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in the Waziriya district of Baghdad, police said	1	3
One Iraqi soldier was killed and two wounded Monday in one of three Baghdad bombings in which one civilian was also killed, according to defense officials.	1	2
#3: The bodyguard of a Sunni politician was shot dead in west Baghdad	1
#4: in west Baghdad the bodies of at least 23 murder victims were discovered, including eight found shot dead and dumped by the roadside in the southwest of the city.	23
#5: Four mortar bombs fell in the southern Baghdad suburb of Abu Dshir, killing two civilians and injuring seven more. Earlier, one civilian and one soldier were killed in a series of bomb attacks which injured seven people.	4	14
#6: The technical director of the Dora power station was shot dead	1
#7: An Iraqi soldier was killed and six wounded, police said, when a bomb blasted their vehicle during clashes with insurgents in central Baghdad's Haifa Street area.	1	6
Taji:
#1: Suspected sectarian gangs also continued their campaign of murder in and around the capital. Three people were were gunned down in Taji, north of the city	3
Karbala:
#1: Gunmen killed an agricultural engineer near the holy city of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.	1
Hilla:
#1: Gunmen attacked a group of civilians, killing two and wounding 17, near the city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police sources said.	2	17
Samarra:
#1: Earlier, a suicide bomber targeted police in the southern city of Samarra, killing himself and a male bystander	2
A car bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in the city of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding 17 others, seven of them policemen, medical sources said.	2	17
Tikrit:
#1: In Tikrit a lawyer and a tribal leader were killed when attackers fired on them as they sat at a cafe.	2
Gunmen shot dead tribal leader Sheikh Mahmoud al-Neda, as well as another man and wounded a third, in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	2	1
Kut:
#1: An Iraqi was shot dead by gunmen near the city of Kut 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police sources said.	1
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed Wathiq Yunis, the local head of the Turkmen Front, a small political party, along with his three bodyguards in Mosul, police said.	4
#2: A civilian was wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a U.S. military patrol in Mosul, police said.		1
#3: Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and four wounded when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded near their patrol in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	5	4
#4: Four civilians were shot dead after gunmen opened fire on them in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, medical sources said.	4
#5: Gunmen shot dead a policeman near his home in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
An Anbar Prv:
#1: Two Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died, in separate incidents, due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today.			2
Tal Afar:
#1: Three civilians were wounded when three mortar rounds landed among houses in the northern town of Tal Afar, near Mosul, police said.		3
IRAQ TOTALS	62	71	2	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/24/2006
#1: Hundreds of Taliban fighters firing rocket-propelled grenades on Monday attacked a district headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan, killing three police and wounding seven. About 400 Taliban militants riding in about 35 pickup trucks arrived in the town late Sunday and launched a heavy assault on a district police and administration headquarters using dozens of machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, said Gen. Sayed Aga Saqib, provincial police chief. The militants fled back toward neighboring Helmand province after a five-hour battle, carrying an unknown number of militant casualties with them from a bloodstained battleground. The clash left three police dead, and seven wounded, he said.	3	7
#2: Also in Farah, four suspected suicide attackers riding on two explosive-laden motorbikes were killed after they were challenged by police as they drove through the provincial capital late Sunday, Saqib said. Two of the suspected attackers were shot dead by police, while the other two were killed when police shot at their bike and detonated their explosives, Saqib said. A boy passer-by also was killed in the explosion, while the child's father was wounded, Saqib said.	5	1
#3: Meanwhile, a remotely detonated car bomb seriously wounded two U.S.-led coalition soldiers Monday as they patrolled with Afghan army soldiers in Daman district of southern Kandahar province, on the main highway toward the capital Kabul. A van had appeared to have broken down on the road, then exploded as the patrol passed, said coalition spokesman Maj. Scott Lundy. Afghan officials said it was a suicide attack but the coalition said initial reports showed the bomb was remotely detonated from a house.				2
The nationality of the two coalition soldiers has not been revealed, however witnesses say they were American.
#4: In eastern Afghanistan, an attacker traveling in a taxi from neighboring Pakistan exploded two grenades at a border police checkpoint in Khost province late Sunday, killing a civilian and wounding three others, police said. The attacker threw the first grenade at police, but failed to hurt anyone. As police surrounded the car, the attacker detonated a second grenade, which killed him and one other person in the car, said Gen. Mohammed Ayub, the regional police chief. Three other passengers were wounded.	3	6
#5: In western Ghor province, gunmen killed a doctor and a driver for the aid agency World Vision as they were driving back to Chaghcharan from the town of Charsada, where they had delivered medicine, said Karimuddin Razazada, deputy governor of Ghor province. It wasn't immediately clear who was responsible for the attack.			2
#6: Unknown men attacked the house of a government employee in southeast Afghanistan's Khost province with hand grenades, killing four persons and wounding four others, a local official said Monday. Unidentified militants threw several hand grenades on the house of Wazir Gul, the director for communication of Yaqubi district, Sunday night, killing four persons including his three daughters, the district chief of Yaqubi Mirza Jan Mangal told Xinhua. Four more persons, including Wazir Gul, were also wounded in the attacks.	4	4
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	15	18	2	2