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 22, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	36	35
Coalition in Iraq	1	0
Afghanis	14	3
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	6
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	51	44	95
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
IRAQ
General News:
#1: Iraq Tuesday released five Indian truck drivers who were taken into police custody in Basara early this month. The five Indians, two from Punjab and three from Kerala, were freed by the Iraqi police and they had reached Kuwait, Minister of State for External Affairs E. Ahamed told IANS. They were detained when they were transporting cargo from Kuwait to the Iraqi border for their employers, Kuwait and Gulf Links (KGL) company
#2: A Wilmington, North Carolina, resident who had been working for a military contractor in Iraq for less than a month was killed when his vehicle struck a roadside mine. Illinois native Richard Todd Rhodes died instantly in the explosion last Thursday that also wounded another man. That's according to his mother, Dottie Rhodes of Pekin (PEE'-kihn), Illinois.			1
Baghdad:
#1: Elsewhere in Baghdad, nine corpses were discovered yesterday, four in the Sunni Arab neighborhood of Karkh on the west side of the capital, and five in Rusafa, a predominately Shi'ite neighborhood in the east. All the victims had been shot in the head, according to Iraqi police sources.	9
#2: Elsewhere, a bomb hidden in a bag exploded on a street in Tayaran Square in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two civilians and wounding nine, said police Lt. Bilal Ali.	2	9
#3: A Shiite engineer was shot dead while he was in his car in Baghdad, said police 1st Lt. Mitham Abdul-Razaq.	1
#4: In the north of the Iraqi capital, eight people were injured - some critically - when a petrol tanker exploded near a filling station.		8
#5: The body of Dawoud Salman, an employee in the Shi'ite Endowment, a religious foundation that cares for mosques, was found in the southern Saidiya district of Baghdad, police said.	1
Baqubah:
#1: Gunmen killed a police major and seriously wounded his driver as he was heading home in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of the capital, police said.	1	1
Amarah:
#1: On Tuesday, two civilians were killed in crossfire during an exchange of fire between British forces and militiamen in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, said the region's governor, Adil Mehodar al-Maliki.	2
British troops backed by tanks came under heavy fire after raiding a house in the southeastern Iraqi city of Amara on Tuesday in a hunt for a "terrorist of national significance", a British military spokesman said. The Challenger tanks and Warrior armored fighting vehicles came under co-ordinated rocket propelled grenade and machine gun attack as they withdrew from the area with six suspects, Major Charlie Burbridge told Reuters. No British soldiers were hurt
Hilla:
#1: The body of a man with gunshot wounds to the head was found near Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. He had been shot in the head.	1
Madaen:
#1: The bodies of eight fruit traders have been found with their throats slit on the roadside south of Baghdad, a government official said. Ahmed Diabil, a spokesman for Najaf province, said the eight were kidnapped and killed on Monday and the bodies dumped in Madaen, 40 km south of the capital. The brother of two of the victims said they had been on their way to nearby Salman Pak to buy watermelons.	8
Muqdadiah:
#1: A round of mortar shells crashed into a residential district in the town of Al-Muqdadiah northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday wounding 11 people, police said. The mortars, fired by unknown gunmen, crashed into the neighborhood close to a market of the town, wounding 11 civilians including a child and damaging properties and stores, the police said.		(see below)
Fifteen people hurt by a mortar attack on a market in Muqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.		15
Yusuiya:
#1: A civilian was killed and two wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol near Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1	2
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed a man in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
#2: The government Tuesday confirmed that a Filipino truck driver has been killed in Iraq. Rogelio Alere Saraida, 47, from Bacoor south of Manila died when his truck was hit by a grenade fired by insurgents in Mosul on August 12, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. He was employed by the Kuwait-based Parsons International and was the fifth Filipino to be killed in Iraq in the last two years.	1
#3: Gunmen killed a family of five, including two children, after entering their home in the al-Zanjeeli district of Mosul 390 km north of Baghdad, a hospital source	5
Kirkuk:
#1: Gunmen killed two people on the main road near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	2
Ramadi:
#1: Gunmen killed one of the bodyguards of the governor of Anbar in a drive-by shooting in the restive Sunni stronghold, west of Baghdad, police said. The governor was not present during the attack.	1
IRAQ TOTALS	36	35	1	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
#1: A suicide bomber rammed a car into a convoy of NATO troops in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday, but there was no immediate report of casualties, witnesses said. A vehicle in the convoy was seen on fire, they said.
A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO patrol Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, wounding four soldiers from the alliance and one civilian, a spokesman said. The attacker plowed his car into the convoy in Kandahar, said police officer Amanullah Khan.		1		4
#2: Two Canadian soldiers were wounded when their convoy was ambushed by suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan. The Canadian soldiers, who were part of NATO's deployment in the country, were on their way to the airport in Kandahar city when they were ambushed in Kandahar province's Zharai district, said Major Quentin Innis, a spokesman in the region for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The soldiers returned fire and continued their trip, Innis said, adding that he was unable to provide the Taliban's casualties. He said the wounded soldiers were being treated at the hospital at the Kandahar airfield and were in stable condition.				2
#3: In another incident, two Afghan nomads were wounded Monday when rockets believed to have been fired by the Taliban hit their encampment in the eastern city of Gardiz, another coalition statement said.		2
#4: British forces killed nine suspected Taliban militants as they prepared to attack International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops stationed in the Nowzad district of the southern province of Helmand, the ISAF said on Tuesday. The attack came on Monday night	9
#5: In a separate attack in the southeastern part of the country, insurgents ambushed a police vehicle, killing five officers, a spokesman said. The attack happened near Pakistan border in the southeastern Paktika province, said Abdul Malik, a spokesman for the province's governor. Among those killed was a district police chief, he said.	5
#6: There has been a series of explosions in Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan near a Canadian compound. Eyewitnesses say the first explosion was enormous, erupting into a giant fireball followed by a giant black plume of smoke. A series of smaller explosions was also heard shortly afterward. All of the blasts took place near the camp housing Canada's Provincial Reconstruction Team.
#7: Britain's troops in southern Afghanistan are pulling back from mountain redoubts to focus on safeguarding reconstruction in lowland valleys, a senior British commander said on Tuesday. The change in tactics follows months of unexpectedly bitter fighting in the mountains of Helmand province, which the commander said had dealt a big blow to Taliban guerrillas.
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	14	3	0	6
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	51	44	95
21-Aug-06	24	12	36
20-Aug-06	123	312	435
19-Aug-06	32	29	61
18-Aug-06	31	16	47
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	1489	1802	3291
Daily average, August 2006	68	82	150