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 Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Iraqis: 16 dead, 24 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 1 dead, 0 wounded Afghanis: 42 dead, 23 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 5 dead, 6 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/26/2006
Baghdad:
#1: Two brothers serving in Iraq’s police forces were killed today when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle as they returned home in southeastern Baghdad, police said. The attack occurred as the two returned to the Baghdad suburb of Nahrawan, said police Lt. Bilal Ali Majid.	2
A police patrol in Al-Nahrwan, east of Baghdad, killed local police chief Lieutenant Colonel Khadum Bressam and his brother, and wounded four officers.
#2: Elsewhere in Baghdad, gunmen abducted the Interior Ministry’s residence director as he travelled in an unmarked car. It was not clear who seized Brigadier Abdullah Humoud, police said.
#3: Elsewhere in the capital, one civilian was killed by a roadside bomb	1
#4: Elsewhere in the capital, five bodies which had been tortured and shot were found in three districts, apparently victims of the sectarian murder gangs that roam the city.	5
#5: Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped 17 people from a Baghdad apartment building on Wednesday, Interior Ministry sources said. They said the kidnappers abducted 10 men, five women and two children from different families.
#6: A Sailor assigned to Multinational Corps -- Iraq died at approximately 2:15 p.m today in Baghdad.  The incident does not appear to be the result of enemy action and is under investigation.			1
Karbala:
#1: Gunmen on a motorcycle sprayed three men with bullets at a wedding ceremony in central Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, a medical source said.		3
Nahrawan:
#1: Gunmen shot at a police convoy in Nahrawan, 15 km south of Baghdad, killing three policemen and wounding four others, police said.	3	4
Baqubah:
#1: Also in Baquba, gunmen assaulted an Iraqi police checkpoint, killing one officer and wounding another and two bystanders.	1	3
#2: North of Baghdad, in the restive city of Baquba, gunmen opened fire on a Shiite Muslim family as they gathered their possessions and prepared to flee their mainly Sunni district. One family member was killed and two wounded, police said.	1	2
Samawah:
#1: Australian troops have shot and wounded an Iraqi man who opened fire on their patrol near the capital of Al Muthanna province, defence officials said. Defence spokesman Brigadier Gus Gilmore said the incident happened on Monday night when the man began firing on the Australian patrol near the city of Samawah.	1
Maysan Prv:
#1: A British armoured vehicle has been attacked in Iraq, although there were no casualties among troops, according to the Ministry of Defence. The attack took place in the Maysan province north of Basra, according to an MoD spokesman. Major Charlie Burbridge said forces came under fire from rocket-propelled grenades which did not detonate. The troops subsequently returned fire. It is not known whether there were any Iraqi casualties.
Balad:
#1: An insurgent was killed and three others were detained in a raid by the combined security forces in the town of Balad 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, the Iraqi government said in a statement.	1
Mosul:
#1: A policeman was wounded when a roadside bomb went off targeting his patrol in the city of Mosul 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police sources said.		1
#2: Seven people were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a gas station in central Mosul.		7
Kirkuk:
#1: In the ethnically mixed northern city of Kirkuk, a centre of Iraq's key oil industry, a car bomb was detonated among a crowd of civilians, killing one of them and wounding four more, police said.	1	4
Tal Afar:
#1: Eight suspected insurgents were detained in Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, said Iraqi army Colonel Luqman Khorsheed.
IRAQ TOTALS	16	24	1	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/26/2006
#1: SIX Australian special forces soldiers have been wounded in fighting in Afghanistan, with one sent home for further treatment, the Australian Defence Force revealed today. Defence spokesman Brigadier Gus Gilmore said the injuries occurred during heavy fighting earlier this month at unspecified locations in southern Afghanistan.				6
#2: Just weeks before he was set to come home from Afghanistan, a Vancouver man building a school in the war-torn country was murdered over the weekend. Mike Frastacky, 56, had spent the last four summers building a school in Nahrin, Afghanistan. The carpenter, who lived in Vancouver, had volunteered his time and expertise to build a school that now educates about 580 children.			1
In Zabul province, another province to come under NATO control in five days' time, police said a civilian construction worker was killed and three others wounded on Wednesday in a Taliban ambush.	1	3
#3: Ten militants and a civilian construction worker have been killed in fighting in Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday-- their forces had killed seven militants a day earlier in the drug-producing province of Helmand, where thousands of British troops are based. The patrol came under small arms, rocket-propelled grenade, machine gun and sniper fire, a forces statement said. Five insurgents were killed.	11
Later in the same area, Afghan and coalition troops were attacked and in the resulting firefight two more insurgents were killed, the coalition said.	2
#4: Separately, a defense ministry statement said on Wednesday an Afghan soldier was killed by an explosion in the same province.	1
#5: Another rocket was launched at the coalition base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, just hours after hundreds of Canadian and coalition soldiers bid a tearful farewell to two fallen comrades. CTV's Steve Chao, reporting from Kandahar Airfield, said there were no injuries from the rocket attack
#6: An unidentified plane crashed in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, reportedly causing casualties, but few other details were available, Western and Afghan officials told Reuters. The plane had taken off from the southeastern province of Khost, where U.S.-led coalition forces have a base, before crashing in a nearby province, Afghan officials said. A Western source said he had heard reports of casualties, but had no further information. A spokesman for the coalition forces in Kabul confirmed the crash, but said he had no details. The crash occurred in an area where Taliban insurgents are active.
An unidentified helicopter has crashed in the south-eastern Afghan province of Paktia, officials say. One unconfirmed report says there were four people on board, all of whom died. It is not clear what caused the crash. Details of the incident are sketchy. A defence official said the helicopter took off in nearby Khost province and hit the Qalandar mountains, 35km away.
BBC UPDATE - "All 16 people on board a helicopter which crashed in south-eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday were killed, the US-led coalition says. Spokesman Col Tom Collins said 12 bodies had been recovered and troops were searching for four others. "There are no survivors," he said. The dead include two US civilians and two Dutch military personnel."	12		4
#7: Fifteen Taliban insurgents were killed during heavy bombing in three villages in Musa Qala of southern Helmand province on Tuesday night, Helmand's police chief Nabi Mullahkhail told Reuters. The bombing lasted for several hours," he said. "As a result 15 Taliban were killed and 20 others wounded." Several people who said they were from Musa Qala phoned journalists to say that most of those killed in the attack were civilians. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said only one militant was killed in the raid and the rest were civilians. Coalition officials could not be reached for comment.	15	20
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	42	23	5	6