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 15, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	22	64
Coalition in Iraq	0	0
Afghanis	6	0
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	0
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	28	64	92
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
IRAQ
#1: An Australian security contractor has died from injuries he sustained in a roadside blast in Iraq. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade tonight said the man died yesterday. News Limited named the man as 34-year-old Jon Hadaway, a former Australian soldier who married his wife Melissa only a few weeks ago in Tahiti. He suffered serious burns in the roadside bombing on August 3.			1
Baghdad:
#1: Fierce gunbattles broke out Tuesday between armed supporters of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric and Iraqi security forces after a raid on his office in this southern holy city, leaving many people injured, officials and witnesses said. The two sides exchanged gunfire near one of Iraq's holiest shrines containing the mausoleum of Imam Hussein, a revered figure in Shiite history. The fighting, which began early Tuesday, spread to at least four other parts of Karbala by afternoon in violation of a curfew. Gunmen in civilian clothes could be seen firing AK-47 rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at army patrols and running away.	(see below)
A Karbala Health Directorate official said six people were killed and five people were wounded in the clashes in Karbala. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.	6	5
Baqubab:
#1: Gunmen shot dead police lieutenant Fadhil Uthman while he was boarding a car in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad, police said.	1
#2: One policeman was killed and three people were wounded, including one civilian, when a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in a bus garage in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1	3
Basra:
#1: In Basra, demonstrators protested persistent electricity blackouts in triple-digit temperatures. The protesters burned tires and clashed with police. Residents said ambulance sirens could be heard throughout the city.		2
Amara:
#1: Elsewhere, one civilian was killed by gunmen in the southern city of Amara today.	1
Muqdadiya:
#1: Gunmen killed three bakers supplying bread for the Iraqi army and wounded a passerby in the town of Muqdadiya, 90 km (50 miles) north east of Baghdad, police said.	3	1
Huwayder:
#1: A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in Huwayder, north of Baquba, wounding three policemen, a police source said.		3
Samarra:
#1: Two roadside bombs targeting police commandos exploded near the spiral minaret of Samarra, north of Baghdad, wounding three police commandos and destroying one vehicle, a joint U.S. and Iraqi policing centre said.		3
#2: Five civilians were wounded when gunmen in a car shot at shoppers in a market in central Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.		5
#3: Two Katyusha rockets landed in the Iraqi city of Samarra near the Askariya shrine, also known as the Golden Mosque, revered by Shia Muslims, overnight Tuesday. The mosque, which according to religious tradition contains the remains of Imams Ali al-Hadi and Hassan al-Askari, was said not to have been damaged in the attack, in which six people were injured.		6
Dujail:
#1: Gunmen shot dead a former Iraqi army officer on Monday night on a highway near Dujail, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
Mosul:
#1: A suicide bomber detonated a truck rigged with explosives outside the offices of a top Kurdish political party on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing nine people and wounding 36, police said. Five Kurdish peshmerga militiamen were among the dead, police said. The blast outside the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, also wounded 24 militiamen. The rest of the victims were civilians.	9	36
Ramadi:
#1: (not confirmed) In Ramadi, where Marines are staging a major operation, Iraqi residents said they saw a roadside bomb destroy an American Humvee. Four U.S. soldiers died in a firefight that followed the explosion, residents said. The U.S. military would not confirm the report.			(4 - not confirmed)
IRAQ TOTALS	22	64	0	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
#1: Taliban guerrillas killed six Afghan policemen in an ambush on Tuesday, officials said, in the latest incident in the bloodiest phase of Afghan violence since the Taliban were overthrown. Those killed in the attack in the western province of Farah were a district police chief and five of his men, said provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib.	6
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	6	0	0	0
OTHER NEWS
#2: Two Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, security officials said.	2
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	28	64	92
14-Aug-06	67	75	142
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	1105	1197	2302
Daily average, August 2006	74	80	153