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, August 08, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	56	84
Coalition in Iraq	1	0
Afghanis	2	3
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	0
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	59	87	146
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/8/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: The first bomb blast echoed around the city at dawn, when a roadside booby-trap ripped open a minibus and a taxi in the downtown Nahda area. Nine commuters were killed and eight wounded, an interior ministry official said.	9	8
#2: Almost immediately afterwards, two more blasts targeted a police patrol nearby, wounding three officers, he added.		3
#3: Four hours later, two more bombs detonated in rapid succession in the crowded Shorjah market in the commercial heart of the city. Ten people were killed and 69 wounded in the blasts, which set fire to several shops and sent a thick plume of black smoke above the skyline.	10	69
#4: At about the same time, gunmen stormed a bank in Baghdad and killed two guards and a customer. They drove away with an unknown amount of money, said police Sgt. Zakariya Hassan.	3
#5: Two Iraqi journalists have been killed in separate incidents in Baghdad, police said Tuesday. Mohammed Abbas Hamad, 28, a journalist for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida, was shot by gunmen at he left his home Monday in the Adil section of western Baghdad, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said. Late Monday, police found the bullet-riddled body of freelance journalist Ismail Amin Ali, 30, about a half mile from where he was abducted two weeks ago in northeast Baghdad, Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said. The body showed sign of torture, he added.	2
#6: The bodies of seven people wearing military uniforms were found shot dead in a small town 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	7
#7: A police commando was wounded when a roadside bomb went off near his patrol in the eastern Zayouna district of Baghdad, police said.		1
#8: two rockets fell inside the highly fortified Green Zone
#9: Two Sunni bothers were slain in their car repair shop in southwestern Baghdad	2
#10: Police also found two bodies, both shot in the head, in Sulla in northwest Baghdad on Tuesday.	2
Baqubah:
#1: and four Shiites were shot dead by gunmen in Baqouba, northeast of the capital.	4
Kut:
#1: Overnight, nine bullet-riddled bodies were found in Kut south of Baghdad	9
Iskandariya:
#1: Two civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol on the main road between Mussayab and Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.		2
Tikrit:
#1: Also Tuesday, two roadside bombs in Tikrit north of Baghdad killed a policeman, said police Capt. Laith Hamid.	1
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed two people at a mobile telephone shop in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	2
Hawija:
#1: Police arrested two insurgents while they were planting bombs on the side of the road near Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.
Rashad:
#1: Gunmen killed two employees of a private company in the small town of Rashad, near Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	2
Beduhe:
#1: The Turkish military has opened fire on a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camp in northern Iraq, according to reports by the Peyamner News Agency (PNA). According to Arbil-based PNA, which is close to Massoud Barzani's Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Turkish artillery fire commenced on Monday evening, targeting a suspected PKK camp near the village of Beduhe, and continued on Tuesday morning. Local villages quoted by PNA described the artillery fire coming from the Turkish side of the border as “heavy.”
Also see zaman.com: Turkish Artillery Opens Fire on PKK Camp in N. Iraq, By Cihan News Agency. And for an interesting political analysis see kurdishaspect.com: Another crisis brewing in Middle East - The return of Turkey's Kurdish problem poses a serious challenge for the Bush administration, by Henri J. Barkey, Special to the Los Angeles Times.
Kolajo:
#1: And gunmen ambushed a group of Iraqi mine disposal experts in the northern town of Kolajo, triggering a firefight with their armed escorts that left one of the attackers dead, a local official said.	1
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: A Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died due to wounds sustained from enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province Aug. 6.			1
Fallujah:
#1: Gunmen killed a police lieutenant colonel and wounded his brother in Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.	1	1
Al Bu Hardan:
#1: An Iraqi civilian died of wounds received while driving a tractor, which triggered an improvised explosive device in western Al Anbar Province, Iraq, today. The attack occurred in a small town called Al Bu Hardan, located on the eastern outskirts of the Syrian border town of Husaybah, Iraq.	1
IRAQ TOTALS	56	84	1	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/8/2006
#1: Around 50 Taliban crossed into a remote area of the southern Paktika province from Pakistan and traded heavy machine gun fire with police late yesterday, said Sayyed Jamal, spokesman for the governor. The militants slipped back into Pakistan after the fight, he said.
#2: In Helmand, police fending off an attack by Taliban militants killed two insurgents overnight, said provincial police chief Ghulam Nabi Malakhail. Police were not hurt, Malakhail said.	2
#3: In central Khost province, a sack hanging from a mulberry tree exploded as Afghan troops drove by on a busy road, wounding two soldiers and one civilian, said Gen. Mohammad Ayub, provincial police chief.		3
#4: Dera Ismail Khan, Aug 08: Suspected Islamic militants fired a rocket that landed near a military base in a tribal region in Northwestern Pakistan but no one was hurt, an official said on Tuesday. The rocket slammed into a field close to the base housing army and paramilitary troops in Wana, the main town in south Waziristan tribal region, bordering Afghanistan, said an area government official on condition of anonymity.
#5: The base where Canadian soldiers are stationed in southern Afghanistan was hit by a rocket attack yesterday, for the second time in as many days. There were no injuries or damage, a NATO spokesman reported.
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	2	3	0	0
OTHER NEWS
ALL IN A SINGLE DAY - Daily News Log
Dead and Wounded in Both Wars, military and civilian
Daily News Log	Total deaths reported, all nationalities, both wars	Total wounded reported, all nationalities, both wars	Total dead and wounded reported, all nationalities, both wars
31-Aug-06			0
30-Aug-06			0
29-Aug-06			0
28-Aug-06			0
27-Aug-06			0
26-Aug-06			0
25-Aug-06			0
24-Aug-06			0
23-Aug-06			0
22-Aug-06			0
21-Aug-06			0
20-Aug-06			0
19-Aug-06			0
18-Aug-06			0
17-Aug-06			0
16-Aug-06			0
15-Aug-06			0
14-Aug-06			0
13-Aug-06			0
12-Aug-06			0
11-Aug-06			0
10-Aug-06			0
9-Aug-06			0
8-Aug-06	59	87	146
7-Aug-06	47	97	144
6-Aug-06	95	57	152
5-Aug-06	39	38	77
4-Aug-06	88	52	140
3-Aug-06	127	118	245
2-Aug-06	86	48	134
1-Aug-06	81	66	147
Totals, August 2006	622	563	1185
Daily average, August 2006	78	70	148