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 24, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	54	46
Coalition in Iraq	11	3
Afghanis	0	0
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	0
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	65	49	114
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Thursday, August 24, 2006
IRAQ
General News ("In Country")
#1: Two U.S. soldiers were killed south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday, while a series of attacks across the country left at least 11 Iraqis dead and several wounded. One U.S. soldier was killed Wednesday during a raid to capture ''foreign terrorists,'' the U.S. military command said. Two of the militants also were killed, it said, without elaborating. The other American soldier died Thursday when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the military said.	11	2	2
#2: Fifteen Nepali workers were freed from an Iraq jail after serving three months behind bars, apparently because of a misdemeanour by their employer, a Kuwait company, Nepal's official media said Thursday. The men, hired by the KGL Company in Kuwait, were arrested by the Iraqi authorities around May for transporting food grain past the expiry date, and jailed. They were released this week and the news reached Nepal after one of them, Suman Lama, called up his wife Tuesday.
#3: The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt 1st Class Ruben J. Villa Jr., of El Paso, Texas, died on Aug 18, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from a non-combat related cause. Villa was assigned to the Army's Area Support Group (CFLCC) , Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.			1
#4: British troops abandoned their base in Iraq's southern Maysan province on Thursday, which has been under almost nightly attack, and prepared to head deep into the marshlands along the Iranian border to hunt gun smugglers. The 600 combat troops are giving up their Challenger tanks and Warrior armoured fighting vehicles in favour of stripped-down Landrovers armed with machineguns. The units will remain constantly on the move and be resupplied by air drops. The Hussars were until Thursday stationed at Camp Abu Naji near Amara, the capital of Maysan province which also has a large presence of Mehdi Army militia fighters loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. While dismissing suggestions the British had been forced out of Amara, he acknowledged the attacks had been one reason for the decision to withdraw, the second being that a static base did not fit with the new operation.
Baghdad:
#1: A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died at approximately 8 a.m. today when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by an improvised-explosive device south of Baghdad.			1
#2: A U.S. Army Soldier was killed Aug. 23 while conducting combat operations south of Baghdad when his unit came in contact with enemy forces.			1
#3: A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died of wounds after his patrol was attacked by terrorists using small-arms fire at approximately 12:15 p.m. today in Baghdad.			1
#4: In Baghdad, a car bomb in the mixed neighborhood of al-Mashtal in eastern Baghdad killed two civilians and injured five others, police said. The explosion occurred about 100 yards from a police station, police said.	2	5
#5: Another car bomb - targeting a police patrol in the Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah - killed two civilians and wounded four people, included two policemen, police said.	2	4
Two other civilians were killed and four were wounded, including two policemen, when another parked car exploded in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah, the offical said.	(see above)
#6: Elsewhere in the capital, five day laborers were wounded when a bomb hidden in trash exploded outside a paint shop in downtown Tayaran Square, while a roadside bomb exploded next to an Iraqi police patrol, wounding two policemen.		7
#7: In the Azamiyah neighborhood, gunmen opened fire on a police patrol, killing one policeman and wounding another, police said.	1	1
#8: Overnight in the capital, police said gunmen killed at least three people, two of them in the predominantly Sunni area of Amariyah that has been part of the new security strategy.	3
#9: Two policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in central Baghdad on Thursday, police said.	2
#10: The third parked car went off against the convoy of a senior police officer as he passed through central Baghdad's Zayuna neighbourhood. Five policemen were wounded		5
#11: Two civilians were killed and nine wounded when a parked car full of explosives blew up in the neighbourhood of Baghdad Jadida, near the impoverished district of Sadr City, a Shiite bastion on Thursday.	2	9
#12: The head of police patrols in eastern Baghdad, Colonel Hussein Abdul Wahid, escaped an assassination attempt when a car bomb exploded near his motorcade in the eastern district of Zayouna, police said. He was unharmed but five of his bodyguards were wounded, police added.		5
#13: Four civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said. The target of the bomb was not clear.		4
Karbala:
#1: Gunmen killed four people, three of them from Saddam Hussein's ousted Baath party, in different attacks in Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad.	4
Baqubah:
#1: To the north, a bomb in a minivan killed three policemen and wounded a minivan driver in Baqouba, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, police said.	3	1
#2: On the outskirts of that city, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army convoy, killing three soldiers and destroying their armored vehicle, said Baqouba army commander Brig. Salman al-Talabani.	3
#3: A civilian was wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a shop selling alcohol in Baquba, police said.		1
Baiji:
#1: Police found the body of an Iraqi near the town of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, after earlier finding its severed head in the same town on Wednesday, police said on Thursday.	1
Tikrit:
#1: Police retrieved a body from the Tigris river in the city of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, a joint U.S. and Iraqi policing centre said.	1
Balad:
#1: Gunmen killed three policemen on Wednesday at a checkpoint in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	3
Latifiya:
#1: Police retrieved a body, handcuffed, blindfolded and with gunshot wounds, from a river near Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1
Suwayra:
#1: Police found a body, handcuffed and with gunshot wounds, in the town of Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1
Amara:
#1: (update from 1 wounded) Four British soldiers were wounded in an insurgent mortar attack on their military base near the Iraqi city of Amara in the Missan governorate on Wednesday, British military sources said. The sources told the Iraqi news agency al-Dar that the attacks was on the Abu Naji military base, which British forces use as a regional headquarters.				3
Kut:
#1: To the east, police found four handcuffed bodies dumped separately in the streets of Kut, a city 100 miles southeast of the capital. All had been shot, said Mahmoud Khazim of the city morgue.	4
#2: Gunmen in army uniforms kidnapped two truck drivers in the Amara-Kut highway, police said.
Mosul:
#1: A hospital in Mosul received the bodies of seven people with gunshot wounds, including five from the same family, a hospital source said.	7
#2: The police found a body with gunshot wounds in the city of Mosul, police said.	1
#3: Two policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in Mosul, police said.		2
Kanimasi and Snaht regions:
#1: Turkish jet fighters have commenced air strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PPK) bases in northern Iraq. F-16 jets carried out air strikes against targets in the Kanimasi and Snaht regions in northern Iraq. Army officials stated that the F-16 jets which took off during the night had inflicted serious casualties [we record minimum of 2 for "serious casualties"] on the PKK.	2
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: (not confirmed) The US army had earlier announced the killing of four marines in two separate incidents in Al Anbar.			4
#2: Chief Petty Officer Paul J. Darga, 34, of Lansing, Mich., died Aug. 22 when his Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team was struck by an improvised explosive device while responding to a previous strike.  His unit was conducting combat operations against enemy forces in the Al Anbar province, Iraq.			1
IRAQ TOTALS	54	46	11	3
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Thursday, August 24, 2006
#1: Maintenance crews are working overtime to prepare the military's Leopard tanks for a deployment, but the army says soldiers who believe the armoured vehicles are being readied for use in Afghanistan are mistaken. Several soldiers have said the tanks are being prepared for shipment to Afghanistan by early next year and that work is underway at Canadian Forces Base Edmonton to prepare the vehicles for that mission. They say the tanks would not be used in an offensive role, but instead to add more protection for Canadian patrols and convoys that have faced increasing attacks from suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices. In addition, some soldiers suggest the presence of tanks would make insurgents think twice about attacking Canadian convoys. But an army official said Wednesday there is no truth to such suggestions and that the Leopards are instead being prepared for a September exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, Alta.
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	0	0	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	65	49	114
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	1629	1888	3517
Daily average, August 2006	68	79	147