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 Saturday, August 26, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	22	33
Coalition in Iraq	0	0
Afghanis	8	5
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	0
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	30	38	68
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Saturday, August 26, 2006
IRAQ
General News ("In Country")
#1: A Sunni Arab lawmaker was freed nearly two months after her kidnapping sparked a political furore. Taiseer Najah al-Mashhadani was released after her captors made contact with Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a member of her Iraqi Islamic Party said.
Baqubah:
#1: Gunmen in the town of Baquba 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad attacked a Shi'ite family, killing two women and two children and wounding 11. The family had previously received Sunni insurgent threats and were moving out of their home when the attack took place, police said.	4	11
Iskandaria:
#1: A car bomb outside a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Iskandaria south of Baghdad killed three people and wounded 17, police said.	3	17
Tikrit:
#1: Gunmen in the predominantly Sunni town of Tikrit stormed a bakery on Friday and killed three Shi'ite workers and wounded two, police said.	3	2
Samarra:
#1: Gunmen killed a policeman in the town of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S.-Iraqi Joint Co- ordination Centre said.	1
Dhuluiya:
#1: Insurgents killed the owner of an ice factory on Friday in the small town of Dhuluiya, 40 km (25 miles) north of Baghdad, the Joint Co-ordination Centre said.	1
Basra:
#1: Gunmen killed a woman translator and wounded another as they left a British military base in the southern city of Basra, police said.	1	1
Gunmen in a speeding car opened fire Saturday on two sisters working as translators for the British consulate, killing one of them and seriously wounding the other, police said.	(see above)
#2: Gunmen killed three civilians in Basra, police said.	3
Kirkuk:
#1: Four Kurdish civilians were killed in a drive -by shooting as they were travelling southwest of the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, police said.	4
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed a university student and wounded his brother and sister in their home in the northern city of Mosul, police said.	1	2
#2: Gunmen killed a policeman in Mosul on Friday, police said.	1
IRAQ TOTALS	22	33	0	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Saturday, August 26, 2006
#1: British forces killed about seven insurgents in an air strike on a convoy of rebels preparing to attack Nato forces in southern Afghanistan. Seven vehicles were destroyed in the strike on Friday in the southern province of Helmand, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement Saturday.	7
#2: Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan shot and killed a plainclothes policeman and wounded five other Afghans on Saturday, mistakenly thinking they were attackers, the force said. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops shot at the Afghans in two incidents that took place 40 minutes apart in a Taliban stronghold in southern Kandahar province where troops come under regular attack. The first shooting on Saturday involved a civilian truck carrying armed men in civilian clothes who later turned out to be plainclothes policemen, spokesman Major Scott Lundy told AFP. After hand signals and warning shots drew an aggressive response from the rapidly approaching unmarked truck, ISAF troops at the checkpoint fired to stop the vehicles advance and in self-defence," an ISAF statement said. Lundy said the men in the vehicle had started shooting. "ISAF returned fire and in the ensuing exchange of gunfire, five Afghans were injured. There were no ISAF casualties," he said.	1	5
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	8	5	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	30	38	68
25-Aug-06	33	67	100
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	1692	1993	3685
Daily average, August 2006	65	77	142