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 Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Iraqis: 59 dead, 58 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 1 dead, 2 wounded Afghanis: 9 dead, 4 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 1 dead, 5 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/25/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: Gunmen have ambushed an Iraqi police unit in central Baghdad and triggered a gunbattle which left six officers dead and 30 more injured, police said. The 30-minute clash erupted as night fell on Monday on Haifa Street near the west bank of the Tigris River just north of the fortified Green Zone	6	30
#2: Following the clash, two roadside bombs exploded overnight in the city, killing one policeman and one civilian and leaving two bystanders injured.	2	2
#3: And the corpses of two tortured murder victims were found abandoned by the road side, a police officer said.	2
#4: A policeman was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the Zayouna district of the capital, Interior Ministry sources said.	1	3
#5: Gunmen killed a policeman in a drive-by shooting in southwestern Baghdad, police said.	1
#6: In another attack, a family of Shiite civilians who had been threatened by a sectarian death squad were ambushed by gunmen as they fled a mainly Sunni neighbourhood south of the city, medical and defence officials said. Two of the family were killed and one was wounded when their removal van was sprayed with bullets.	2	1
#7: Four other civilians were shot dead around the capital, two of them in drive-by shootings	4
Two men were gunned down inside their car in the Yarmouk district of Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said.	2
#8: The bodies of six people were found shot dead in different districts of Baghdad, police said.	6
#9: A suicide car bomber today attacked a joint Iraqi police and army checkpoint in northeastern Baghdad, killing three officers who had been inspecting vehicles, police said. Police Captain Ali al-Ubaidi said the attack occurred around 5pm local time in Baghdad’s northeastern Shaab neighbourhood.	3
Baqubah:
#1: The bodies of five people were found shot dead on Monday night in a village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baquba, after being abducted hours earlier, police said.	5
Suwayra:
#1: The bodies of seven people were found, shot dead and blindfolded, in Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	7
Balad:
#1: An attack on a convoy in Baghdad that injured two airmen deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base is detailed in a gripping account from their unit in Iraq. The airmen's vehicle was damaged by the explosion of a roadside bomb made from a 155 mm mortar shell hidden five miles north of Balad Air Base, the largest military air facility in Iraq.				2
Dinwaniya:
#1: Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein's ousted Baath party on Monday in the city of Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1
Ishaqi:
#1: Gunmen killed a police officer while he headed to work in the town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the Joint Iraqi- U.S. Coordination centre said.	1
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen set fire to food ration stores run by the Ministry of Trade at midnight in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
#2: Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a joint Iraqi-U.S. patrol in Mosul, the Iraqi army said.		3
#3: Four people were wounded when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded near a U.S. military patrol in Mosul, police said.		4
Eleven people, including two policemen, were wounded when a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded near a U.S. military patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said		11
Kirkuk:
#1: Gunmen fired rocket propelled grenades at two fuel trucks, killing two drivers and abducting the third on the main road between Kirkuk and Baghdad, police said. One of trucks was set on fire.	2
Daquq:
#1: Gunmen wounded four people working for a private Iraqi company which deals with the U.S. military near the town of Daquq, 45 km (20 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.		4
Saqlawiya:
#1: The U.S. military killed two civilians on Monday after a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in Saqlawiya, near Falluja, police said. The U.S. military said they did not have information on the incident.	2
Fallujah:
#1: The bodies of two people were found with gunshot wounds near Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.	2
IRAQ TOTALS	49	58	0	2
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/25/2006
#1:  In Kunar, the coalition soldier was killed by militants during a coalition ground operation, backed by aircraft fire. The statement did not identify the soldier's nationality and did not say if there were any casualties among the militants.			1
#2: Seven insurgents were killed in the Paktika clash after militants attacked a patrol with small arms and rocket propelled grenades, a forces statement said. A coalition soldier suffered minor shrapnel wounds.	7			1
#3: The bomb in Kabul – the latest in a series of blasts that have rattled nerves in the capital – killed a man and a woman travelling in a taxi, and wounded four others, said Faiz Ahmad Hotaq, a police official.	2	4
#4: (update) A convoy of U.S.-led forces was hit by a blast near the southern city of Kandahar yesterday and at least two soldiers were wounded, coalition forces said. An initial Reuters report said the injured soldiers were Canadian. "Two Canadian soldiers were wounded in the incident," spokesman Capt. Julie Roberge was quoted as saying.				2
#5: Two engineer Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District were wounded July 23 when the vehicle in which they were traveling was hit by an improvised explosive device. One of the injured is a combat engineer senior sergeant with over 30 years of service. The sergeant major’s knowledge of construction practices and techniques is valuable in producing quality facilities for Afghan’s National Security Forces. The second injured Soldier is a retired Reserve staff sergeant who volunteered for recall.				2
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	9	4	1	5
OTHER NEWS
#1: Latvian soldiers in Iraq came under fire last night near Divania, but suffered no casualties, the Defense Ministry announced. The Latvian soldiers are stationed in military bases in Baghdad and Divania, which had been relatively quiet in recent days.
#2: VA's ongoing care for brain-injured veterans falls short: More than 1,000 veterans and their families now share a unique struggle to regain their health after suffering what medicine calls traumatic brain injuries, but what individuals and loved ones find is a complex knot of physical, mental and emotional problems.
#3: A Servicemember assigned to the 43rd Military Police Brigade was killed in action while conducting combat operations north of Baghdad, July 25.			1