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 Thursday, August 17, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	40	52
Coalition in Iraq	3	0
Afghanis	23	10
Coalition in Afghanistan	1	2
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	67	64	131
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Thursday, August 17, 2006
IRAQ
General news:
#1: Along with a sharp increase in Iraqi-on-Iraqi attacks, the number of daily attacks on U.S. and Iraqi security forces has doubled since January. And while the number of Americans killed in action per month has declined slightly, reflecting improvements in armor and other defenses, the number of Americans wounded has soared, to 518 in July from 287 in January.
#2: U.S. officials said that, in July, a total of 2,625 bombs exploded or were discovered before they could detonate. That was up sharply from the 1,454 bombs that went off or were discovered in January. Of the bombs discovered in July, 1,666 of them exploded and the rest were detected. About 70 percent of them were directed at U.S.-led forces. Twenty percent were directed at Iraqi security forces and 10 percent against civilians, the officials said.
#3: Deputy Health Minister Adel Muhsin said Wednesday that about 3,500 Iraqis died in July in sectarian or political violence nationwide, the highest monthly death toll for civilians since the war started in March 2003. Last week, the ministry said about 1,500 violent deaths were reported in the Baghdad area alone in July. U.S. commanders are rushing nearly 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops to the capital to try to end the carnage.
#4: Iran has launched a cross-border operation into an area in northern Iraq, following attacks on its border patrol points, Iraqi Kurdish media reported yesterday. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's (PUK) press office claimed on its webpage Pukmedia.com that, in response to terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)-affiliated PEJAK's attacks on Iran's border patrol points on Tuesday, the Iranian Army launched a comprehensive ground operation on the northern Iraqi regions of Haci-Umran and Kandil. There was no immediate response from Iranian officials in Ankara. The report claimed that PEJAK militants took heavy casualties from the Iranian Army in the Konelacan region. According to Pukmedia, the Iranian Army also shelled the regions of Seripaye, Kanikoxerese, Geruy Gezgezke, Gabalek, Berdunaz, Mergan, Derawi Melazade, Hozi Mergesir and Pirerok near Kandil, in response to the attacks of PEJAK.
Baghdad:
#1: Four people were killed and 12 injured in a car bomb explosion Thursday in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, the stronghold of an influential Shiite cleric, police said, underlining the volatile situation in the capital. The parked car exploded a little after noon near a market, damaging many shops, said police Lt. Adil Salih. He did not have any other details.	(see below)
(update) The parked car exploded a little after noon near a market in Sadr City, inflicting the casualties and damaging many shops, said police Lt. Adil Salih. The Iraqi army general command said in a statement that seven people were killed and 15 injured.	7	15
#2: In Baghdad's upscale Al-Mansour neighbourhood a suicide car bomber blew himself up against a passing police patrol wounding three policemen and two civilians, the interior ministry official said.		5
#3: Three policemen were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Mansour district, west-central Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said.	(see above)
#4: Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldier died at approximately 7 a.m. today when he was hit by an improvised-explosive device south of  Baghdad while conducting a dismounted patrol.			1
Baqubah:
#1: Another six people were killed in a string of shootings in and around Baquba, north of the capital, police said. Three of the dead were brothers, who owned an agricultural equipment shop, while another was a salesman. The four were shot in the centre of Baquba market. A fifth victim was gunned down by men after they stole his car outside Baquba, while a civilian from the village of Zhagania, north of town, was shot dead in a coffee shop, police added.	(see below)
Nine civilians, including three brothers, were assassinated in separate attacks in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	9
#2: Late on Wednesday, four civilians had been shot dead in and around Baquba, police said.	4
Muqdadiyah:
#1: In the town of Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baquba, 20 people were wounded including three policemen when three mortars rounds slammed into a market on Thursday, police said.	(see below)	20
In the town of Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baquba, three people died and 20 were wounded, including two policemen, in a mortar and roadside bomb attack on a market, police said.	3	(see above)
#2: Two more bodies were recovered from the Mahrut river near Muqdadiyah, police added.	2
#3: An Iraqi interpreter working on a U.S. military base was killed by gunmen in Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said	1
Mahmudiya:
#1: A roadside bomb exploded near a gas station in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, wounding two civilians, police said.		2
#2: Two more bodies were recovered from the Mahrut river near Muqdadiyah, they added.	2
Daquq:
#1: A roadside bomb exploded in the town of Daquq, 45 km (25 miles) south of Kirkuk, killing two civilians and wounding a third, police said.	2	1
Suweira:
#1: Police on Thursday also said they had pulled five corpses from the Tigris river near the town of Suweira, southeast of the capital.	5
Qurnah:
#1: A Danish soldier was shot in the back Wednesday in Qurnah, about 35 miles north of Basra, the Danish military said without giving further details.			1
Balad:
#1: A security source said that an Iraqi soldier responsible for protecting oil facilities was shot dead in Balad, north of Baghdad	1
Mosul:
#1: while in the northern city of Mosul a senior police offcer was also shot and killed.	1
Sinjar:
#1: Nine people were wounded, including four civilians, when a suicide car bomber targeting Kurdish security forces blew himself up on a road in Sinjar, northwest of Mosul, said police Colonel Kareem Khalaf.		9
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: One U.S. soldier died on Wednesday from combat wounds in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.			1
Fallujah:
#1: Gunmen killed a policeman in the city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, police said.	1
#2: The bodies of two men with gunshot wounds, bearing signs of torture, were found dead just north of Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.	2
IRAQ TOTALS	40	52	3	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Thursday, August 17, 2006
#1: Eight militants were killed in Afghanistan after they attacked soldiers of the US-led international military coalition, a coalition statement said Thursday. The coalition troops came under small-arms fire Wednesday in the Asadabad district of Kunar province and killed the eight when they responded with small-arms and machine-gun fire and grenades, the statement said, adding that its forces suffered no casualties in the attack.	8
#2: Gunmen abducted at least 15 people, including a doctor and nurses, as they traveled to a refugee camp in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said. Aga Jan Nazari, provincial director of the refugee department, said 15 people were kidnapped in Kandahar province. Dr. Abdullah Fahim, spokesman for the Public Health Ministry, put the number at 20 and said they included a doctor and five nurses who were on their way to the Zadi refugee camp in the province's Zhela district. A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, denied the kidnapping but confirmed its militants did commandeer the minivan used by the missing people. He said the people had fled to nearby villages and were not being held by the Taliban.
#3: In Paktika province, a U.S. military vehicle hit the Soviet-era mine late Wednesday, killing on soldier. Collins ruled out enemy action.			1
#4: In Kandahar province Thursday, a bomber drove an explosive-laden car into a joint U.S.-Afghan army convoy on the main Kandahar-Kabul highway, seriously wounding one U.S. soldier, said Mohammadullah Khan, an Afghan army officer who was in the convoy. The wounded soldier was part of the team that trains Afghan National Army, said Col. Tom Collins, a U.S. military spokesman. The bomber died and an U.S. armored Humvee vehicle was damaged in the blast, Khan said.	1			1
#5: In nearby Uruzgan province, a suicide bomber targeting a patrol of the NATO-led force Thursday killed one civilian and wounded six others, said Maj. Scott Lundy, the spokesman for the NATO force. No alliance troops were wounded. However, the Interior Ministry gave a different account, saying eight police were wounded in that blast, four seriously. It said police were the target of a bomber with explosives strapped to his body.	2	8
A suicide bomber blew himself up near an Afghan police post on Thursday, killing himself and wounding seven police in the volatile southern province of Uruzgan, the provincial police chief said.	(see above)
#6: A Royal Irish Soldier was today fighting for his life after being shot in the head in Afghanistan.				1
The Scottish soldier, a member of the Third Battalion, is believed to have been shot during fighting with Taliban forces in the Helmand province. It is believed the incident happened last week but details have only emerged now. The solider, who has not been named, is being treated in a civilian hospital in Pakistan where his condition is thought to be critical. An Army spokesman said it was not policy to comment on injured soldiers but confirmed a soldier was being treated in a hospital in Pakistan.				(see above)
#7: A bomb dropped by a U.S.-led coalition aircraft killed 10 police in southeastern Afghanistan, a deputy border police chief said. The U.S. military said the "incident is under investigation." The policemen were killed when coalition aircraft mistakenly "dropped a bomb" on a two-vehicle border police patrol in Turwa area of southeastern Paktika province, said Gen. Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan's deputy chief of border police. There were no survivors, he said. Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said they were aware of the reports but could not "divulge details at this time."	(see below)
(update) A BOMB dropped by a US warplane in southeastern Afghanistan killed 12 border police and wounded two more, the provincial governor said.	12	2
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	23	10	1	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	67	64	131
16-Aug-06	56	128	184
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	1228	1389	2617
Daily average, August 2006	72	82	154