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 Sunday, August 13, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	61	164
Coalition in Iraq	0	0
Afghanis	25	31
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	0
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	86	195	281
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Sunday, August 13, 2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: Iraq's health minister, who is aligned to a powerful Shiite militia, claimed Sunday that U.S. forces arrested seven of his personal guards in a surprise pre-dawn raid on his office. The reason for the alleged arrests was unclear.
#2: Three people were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Baghdad, police said.		3
#3: Gunmen abducted Ayatollah Hussein al-Husseini, a member of the Shi'ite religious clergy, from his office in New Baghdad district of the capital, police said.
#4: At least 10 people were killed and 56 wounded when a rocket attack demolished a building and a car bomb hit rescuers rushing to the scene in Baghdad. The twin explosions knocked down a four-storey building in the Zafaraniyah district of the Iraqi capital, the official and a witness said. "A Katyusha rocket landed on a building in the Al-Qubyasi market. Five minutes later, 100 metres (yard) away from this building a car bomb went off," said the official after the blasts, which erupted at about 7:00 pm (1500 GMT) Sunday.	(see below)
Three successive explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 70 Sunday night in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in southern Baghdad, police said. The first blast occurred about 7:15 p.m. (11:15 a.m. EDT) when a rocket struck an apartment building in the Zafraniyah neighborhood, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said. About 10 minutes later, a car bomb exploded as police and bystanders rushed to the scene, he said. A bomb strapped to a motorcycle went off in the same area minutes later, he said.	(see below)
(update)  Three back-to-back explosions struck a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 148 as sectarian violence persists despite a U.S.-led security operation.	47	148
Baqubah:
#1: The deputy head of provincial council of Diyala governorate in northeast of Baghdad escaped unhurt when a roadside bomb struck his convoy in Baquba city on Sunday, a police source said.
#2: Three policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in Baquba, police said.		3
#3: Gunmen killed a civilian inside a market in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
Baiji:
#1: Police said that militants shot dead two building labourers in Baiji, north of Baghdad.	2
Al Gherba:
#1: The body of a woman who had been shot dead was found on Saturday in small town of al-Gherba, near Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said on Sunday.	1
Bedra:
#1: A woman and two children were killed when an old land mine, planted during the Iraq-Iran war, exploded near the town of Bedra, near the eastern border, a border officer said.	3
Mussayab:
#1: Two civilians were wounded on Saturday when Katusha rocket landed on a residential district in the town of Mussayab, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	2
Mahmudiya:
#1: Four people were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in a popular market in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.		4
Hilla:
#1: An insurgent was killed and four policemen and an insurgent were wounded on Saturday during clashes erupted in a small town near Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1	5
Balad:
#1: Gunmen stormed the house of a civilian and shot him in a town near Balad, 80 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
Samarra:
#1: Police said they found the body of an unknown male civilian in the town of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad. He had been shot in the head.	1
Tikrit:
#1: Gunmen killed a colonel in the Oil Protection Facilities, a security body charged with guarding Iraq's oil infrastructure, while he was in a gas station north of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
Owja:
#1: Gunmen killed a civilian on Saturday in the small town of Owja, near Tikrit, police said.	1
Mosul:
#1:   Earlier in the day, the governor of the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh Duraid Kashmoolah escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday, but the chief of his bodyguards was wounded, a local police source said. Unknown gunmen opened fire at Kashmoolah while he was visiting Marakish gas station in Mosul city, the source said, adding that the governor escaped the attempt unhurt, but the chief of his bodyguards, Col. Muhammed al-Waggaa, was wounded.		1
IRAQ TOTALS	61	164	0	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Sunday, August 13, 2006
#1: The Afghan soldier was killed in Barmal district of Paktika province Saturday during the clash with militants, said Sayyed Jamal, the spokesman for the province's governor. No information was available about any militant casualties.	1
#2: Meanwhile, a clash between police officers in Andarab district of central Baglan province, left one police officer dead and four wounded Saturday, said Kamin, a police official in the province, who goes by only one name. It was not immediately clear what caused the fight.	1	4
#3: A roadside bomb apparently targeting a NATO military vehicle exploded here yesterday but caused no casualties, the interior ministry said. Witnesses said the early morning blast woke up many people in Kabul, where attacks are rarer than elsewhere in the volatile country because of heavy security.
#4: Twenty one persons, all of them civilians, were wounded as rockets fired by suspected militants hit a house in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, an official at the office of Inferior Ministry spokesman said Sunday. "Two rockets fired by the rebels struck a house in Shaltan village of Shigal district Saturday at 7:00 p.m. wounding 21 persons including some women and children," the official told Xinhua, but refused to be identified.		21
#5: Insurgents attacked an Afghan army post in the country's east on Sunday, leaving five soldiers and at least 18 militants dead, the U.S.-led coalition said. Six soldiers were hurt, three seriously, in the fighting in Paktika province before the attackers were fended off by mortar fire from nearby military bases, said a statement from the coalition that operates in eastern Afghanistan.	23	6
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	25	31	0	0
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	86	195	281
12-Aug-06	74	40	114
11-Aug-06	37	7	44
10-Aug-06	133	176	309
9-Aug-06	58	77	135
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	1010	1058	2068
Daily average, August 2006	78	81	159