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 Wednesday, August 23, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	33	28
Coalition in Iraq	0	3
Afghanis	41	6
Coalition in Afghanistan	1	0
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	75	37	112
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
IRAQ
General News:
#1: Two Army Engineering and Support Center Huntsville contractor employees killed in Iraq on Friday have been identified. Brenton Thomas Gray, 34, from Southern Pines, N.C., and Edmund Bruwer, 37, of the Republic of South Africa were killed when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, according to a news release. Two other contractors who were wounded in the same incident were taken to Germany for medical treatment. Gray and Bruwer worked for Cochise Consultancy, which is based in Tampa, Fla.			(reported previously)	2
#2: Police found six more dead bodies under a bridge between the two volatile cities of Mahmudiyah and Latifiyah, south of Baghdad. Officers said that they appeared to have been killed some time ago.	6
#3: The number of U.S. troops in Iraq has climbed back to 138,000, driven up in part by the need to control the escalating violence in Baghdad and the decision to delay the departure of an Alaska-based Army brigade.
Baghdad:
#1: civilian was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb went off in the southern Saidiya district of Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said.	1	1
#2: Iraqi army killed one insurgent and arrested 29 other suspects during the last 24 hours in different cities across Iraq, the army said on Wednesday.	1
#3:  Two roadside bombs targeting an Iraqi patrol went off in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, wounding five police, an Interior Ministry source said. The blasts occurred at about 3:00 p.m. (1100 GMT) in Dora district in southern Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity. Five cars including a police vehicle were seriously destroyed in the attacks, the source added.	(See below)
A car exploded Wednesday near an army special ops check-point in Dorra area in southern Iraq, said a security source. According to eyewitnesses the explosion caused the death of three soldiers and the injury of nine others. The security source did not verify this information.	(See below)
A roadside bomb exploded Wednesday in Baghdad and narrowly missed the interior minister's convoy, killing two civilians and wounding several traffic policemen, officials said. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani was unhurt and it was not clear if he was the intended target or whether the bomb had been meant for a U.S. military convoy that was about 500 yards behind. The explosion in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Dora killed two bystanders, including a 12-year-old, and injured five traffic policemen, said Dora police officer Mohammad al Baghdadi.	2	5
Baqubah:
#1: Eight people, including two policemen, were gunned down in different incidents in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	(see below)
Most of the violence on Wednesday occured in Diyala province just north of the capital around the city of Baquba, where 10 people were killed and three more bodies found, according to  police sources.	13
Basra:
#1: (near) On the road between Basra and Nasiriyah in the south of the country, a remote-controlled roadside bomb tore apart a civilian car, killing the driver and his passenger, police said.	2
Amarah:
#1: Four Katyusha rockets were fired at a British base in a southern Iraqi town on Wednesday, a day after British troops fought a gunbattle with militiamen, police said. No casualties were reported from the rockets, three of which landed inside the base in Amarah town while the fourth hit the nearby neighbourhood of Al-Amarat al-Qadmia without exploding, police Capt Hussein Karim said. An Iraqi police patrol later found four base launcher and a fifth launcher loaded with a rocket in an area near the camp, he added.
British officials have reported that a barrage of mortars hit one of their bases in the south of Iraq. A barrage of 17 mortar rounds were fired at the British base of Camp Abu Naji yesterday, said Maj. Charlie Burbridge, spokesman for the British forces. One British soldier was wounded, and was in hospital in stable condition, he said. One more mortar round landed at the camp this morning, but did not cause any injuries or damage.				1
Iraqi police had earlier reported that Katyusha rockets had been fired at the base, but later said it was a mistaken assumption because they found four rocket launchers near the base.
#2: Also Wednesday, an army officer was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Amarah. First Lt Hassanein Saadi al-Zerjawi, 29, was standing near his home when he was shot, Karim said.	1
#3: (near)  A policeman was shot dead in a similar incident last night in Al-Hay, north of Amarah.	1
Kut:
#1: Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein's ousted Baath Party late on Tuesday, police said.	1
#2: (near) Gunmen killed a policeman on Tuesday in the small town of al-Hay, south of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.	1
Mosul:
#1: A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday outside a police headquarters in northern Iraq, killing at least one person. The suicide bomber in the northern city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, detonated his explosives at a checkpoint when he tried to enter the police building, said Maj. Gen. Wathiq al-Hamdani, the police chief. One woman was killed and 10 people were injured in the blast, he said.	1	10
In the northern city of Mosul, where insurgents have been conducting a fierce campaign against government security forces, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest at a police checkpoint outside a courthouse. Six officers were wounded, but the bomber was the only person killed in the attack, city police said.	1	(see above)
Kirkuk:
#1: In the northern city of Kirkuk, two civilians were shot dead in a carjacking and two more, including a child, were wounded in crossfire between insurgents and troops at an army checkpoint, Captain Imad Jassim said.
Fallujah:
#1: A roadside bomb missed a U.S. military convoy in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing two pedestrians and injuring 12, said police Lt. Ahmed Salim.	2	12
IRAQ TOTALS	33	28	0	3
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
#1: (update) A suicide bomber on Tuesday afternoon struck a Canadian resupply convoy traveling in the city of Kandahar, killing one soldier and wounding three others, Canadian forces said. The other three soldiers were evacuated to a hospital at the Kandahar Airfield where they were reported to be in good condition. Two Canadian vehicles were destroyed in a fire that resulted from the suicide bombing, which took place at 3:15 p.m.			1	(previously reported)
Corporal David Braun, a recently arrived soldier with the second battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, is the eighth Canadian soldier to die here this month and the 19th since operations moved to the south in February.			(see above)
#2: Meanwhile, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said 11 Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike in the province's Zhari district. ISAF said its forces spotted a 15-person Taliban group preparing an ambush about 10:30 p.m. "Upon realizing it had been detected, the group moved to a nearby compound. After confirming there were no civilians present ISAF dropped a precision-guided bomb on the compound. Based on surveillance, ISAF assesses 11 Taliban were killed in the airstrike, while two insurgents were later seen leaving the compound."	11
#3: An Afghan official says that two roadside bombs have killed three civilians and injured one in southern Afghanistan. Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar Province, said both explosions occurred along the same road, in the Daman district.	3	1
#4: A single bullet fired by a Canadian soldier killed a 10-year-old boy and wounded a teenager who approached a security cordon on a motorcycle about two hours after a suicide bomber killed a Canadian soldier and a young Afghan girl in a fiery strike outside the gates of Camp Nathan Smith. "A motorcycle carrying two people broke through the Afghan National Police outer security cordon at high speed. The driver failed to heed multiple warnings to stop as he headed towards the inner Canadian cordon," said Colonel Fred Lewis, deputy commander of the Canadian contingent here. "A Canadian ISAF soldier opened fire in a defensive application of our rules of engagement. A single round struck both the driver and the passenger of the motorcycle."	1	1
#5: There has been another huge explosion in downtown Kandahar. The blast is believed to have taken place near where a suicide attacker killed one Canadian soldier Tuesday and injured three others. Witnesses say the blast could be heard across Kandahar. There are no reports so far of casualties.
#6: Eighteen suspected Taleban were killed in a clash with police Wednesday in the Khake-Afghan district of southern Zabul province, said Jailani Khan, the province’s deputy police chief.	18
#7: Militants also attacked an Afghan army patrol in Zabul, killing a soldier and wounding four, a Defense Ministry statement said. NATO warplanes responded to Tuesday’s ambush, bombing a Taleban position and killing seven fighters.	8	4
#8: Nato's claims to have killed 11 Taliban (see #2 above) who were preparing an ambush in Afghanistan have been disputed by local people who have said that the dead were civilian grape-pickers. The Nato-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan said its troops spotted 15 Taliban near a main road in Kandahar late on Tuesday. Lundy said: "11 Taliban were killed in the air strike, while two insurgents were later seen leaving the compound." But civilians in the Zhari area to the west of Kandahar city, said the dead were farmers who had been working in their grape fields in the cool of the evening. "Those people who died in the bombing were civilians," Ahmad Shapour, a resident of the area, said by telephone.	(see above)
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	41	6	1	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	75	37	112
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	1564	1839	3403
Daily average, August 2006	68	80	148