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 31, 2006

Iraqis: 21 dead, 22 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 0 dead, 0 wounded Afghanis: no report Coalition in Afghanistan: no report

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
7/31/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: At least four Iraqis were shot dead and a car bomb exploded in Baghdad as insurgents and rival sectarian death squads pursued their campaigns to destabilise the strife-torn country.	4
#2: Gunmen wearing Iraqi police uniforms have kidnapped 25 people at the offices of a company in central Baghdad,\...The gunmen pulled up in 15 vehicles and rounded up employees and customers of the mobile phone firm on a shopping street...
#3: A car bomb went off near an Iraqi police patrol in northern Baghdad on Monday, wounding a policeman and a civilian, a police source said...The blast damaged a police car and wounded a policeman aboard along with a civilian		2
#4: Gunmen killed Fakhri Salman, a brigadier in the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS), in the Yarmouk district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.	1
#6: Gunmen killed Maad Jihad, an advisor to the health minister, in the Mansour district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.	1
#7: Gunmen in Iraq's capital today opened fire on municipal street sweepers, killing one and injuring two, while a senior intelligence official died in a drive-by shooting.	2	2
#8: In a second kidnapping, gunmen in commando uniforms, blocked a car carrying a millionaire businessman and his two sons, seizing the three in southeastern Baghdad, said police Lt. Bilal Ali Majeed.
#9: Police also discovered the bullet-riddled bodies of three men in the Baghdad area. Two had their hands and feet tied, and the third was fished out of the Tigris river, his body showing signs of torture.	3
Four Peshmergas were killed and 10 others injured when a suicide bomber drove his car into a security checkpoint in southern Dahouk in northern Iraq, said a security source Monday.	4	10
Meanwhile, two workmen were shot dead and two more injured in another shooting in the city, said medics at the Al-Kindi hospital.	2	2
Mosul:
#1: The suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck near an Iraqi observation post outside the northern city of Mosul, killing four Iraqi soldiers and wounding six, said an army officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized...	4	6
IRAQ TOTALS	21	22	0	0