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 29, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	221	157
Coalition in Iraq	6	0
Afghanis	7	7
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	3
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	234	167	401
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
IRAQ
In Country:
#1: A Nebraska National Guard Soldier with the 1st Squadron, 167th Cavalry, 1st Battalion, 34th Brigade Combat Team, under 3rd Corps Support Command, died on Aug. 28, from injuries he sustained when his vehicle rolled over into a canal near Camp Anaconda near the city of Balad, Iraq, on Aug. 21.			(see below)
A Nebraska soldier injured in a Humvee accident in Iraq last week died Sunday, according to the Nebraska Army National Guard. Staff Sgt. Jeffrey J. Hansen, 31, of Cairo, described by a fellow Guardsman as compassionate and “a leader of soldiers,” died at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany from injuries he suffered in the accident, the Guard statement said.			1
#3: The U.S. Army says one of its contractors were killed in Iraq yesterday while working with Huntsville's Army Engineering and Support Center. The Pentagon says 39-year-old Carey Robinson from Orlando, Florida, died when the vehicle he was riding in hit a roadside bomb. Robinson worked for Tampa, Florida-based Cochise Consultancy.			1
Baghdad:
#1: In the capital, Iraqi police found the bodies of 24 people who had apparently been tortured and shot before being dumped in two separate locations in Baghdad. The bodies of 11 people, who had been tied up and shot, were found near a school in the Shia-dominated Maalif neighborhood in the south of the city, police spokesman Mutaz Salahiddin said. The bodies of another 13 people, believed to have been aged between 25 and 35, were found dumped behind a Shia mosque in the Turath neighborhood in the west of the city.	24
#2: Clashes between a Sunni tribe and Shi'ite militias, wounding 14 people late on Monday in southern Baghdad, the army and an Interior Ministry source said.		14
#3: Four mortar rounds landed in two districts in northern Baghdad wounding five people, including two Iraqi soldiers, a source in the Interior Ministry said.		5
#4: A Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldier died at approximately 4:20 p.m. today when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by an improvised-explosive device southwest of Baghdad.			1
Baqubah:
#1: There was trouble, however, in the town of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. Three mortars, two rocket-propelled grenades and a bomb exploded at an al-Sadr office almost simultaneously, killing two guards and destroying the building, the Diyala Province police in the city said. Baqouba is ethnically mixed but with a majority of Sunnis.	2
#2: Elsewhere in Iraq police forces from Baquba said that they had discovered six unidentified corpses around the city, located approximately 60 kilometers east of Baghdad. Security sources from the city said that four corpses were found in the village of al-Mansouriya, one in the al-Hay al- Sinaei/Industrial District of Baquba, and one other corpse in the suburb of Behrez.	6
Four people were found shot dead, handcuffed and blindfolded in a village near Baquba, police said.	(see above)
#3: Fifteen people were gunned down in several attacks in different areas of Baquba, police said.	15
Diwaniya:
#1: At least 29 people were killed when a blast ripped through scavengers siphoning petrol from pools around a breach in a disused pipeline in central Iraq late on Monday, health officials say. A Reuters reporter at the rural site near Diwaniya, 180 kilometres south of Baghdad, saw 15 charred bodies, including that of a boy. The explosion severely wounded 26 people.A police source said more than 50 were killed, although that figure could not be confirmed. Witnesses said the blast occurred at 11:00pm (1900 GMT), while a group of impoverished people were scooping fuel from two large pools.	(see below)
At least 74 people were killed and 94 injured when an old fuel pipeline caught fire near the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniyah on Tuesday, a senior health official told AFP. "The latest toll for the tragedy is 74 people killed and 94 injured," said Hamid Taathi, head of Diwaniyah's health department.	74	94
#2: Calm returned to a southern city Tuesday after Shiite militiamen loyal to an anti-U.S. cleric reached an agreement with Iraqi government forces to end a 12-hour street battle that killed 40 people.	(see below)
#3: (update from 40 dead) Fighting between Iraqi government forces and Shiite militiamen killed 73 people in a southern city before calm was restored, the prime minister's office said Tuesday. The death toll was significantly higher than the 40 people initially reported to have been killed Monday in Diwaniyah before a deal between Shiite militiamen loyal to a powerful cleric and the government ended a fierce 12-hour street battle. "The Iraqi national police and army confronted the gunmen and managed to kill 50 gunmen, but these regretful acts lead to the martyrdom of 23 Iraqi soldiers and wounding of 30 others," said an announcement.	73	30
Bani Saad:
#1: Police also said more than 30 Shiite families fled the village of Khan Bani Saad, southwest of the town, after their homes came under mortar attack from suspected Sunni fighters.
Balad:
#1: Police found the body of a civilian with gunshot wounds to the head and chest in the town of Balad, 80 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
Baiji:
#1: Gunmen killed a bakery worker and wounded another in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1	1
Hilla:
#1: The spokesman added that the 12 bodies found in Hilleh's suburbs bore evidence of torture along with fatal bullet wounds - some of the bodies had their hands bound and some were blindfolded.	12
Iskandariya:
#1: Three bodies were discovered in the town of al-Iskenderiya	3
Al Rashid:
#1: four (bodies) were discovered in the town of al-Rashid	4
Latifiya:
#1: and one (Body) was discovered in the town of al-Latifiya, said the spokesman.	1
#2: An Iraqi soldier was killed and four civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near his patrol in the main road between Mahmudiya and Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1	4
Kirkuk:
#1: Further north, in the oil hub of Kirkuk, one policeman was killed when his patrol car hit a roadside bomb, a police colonel said. Three policemen and two bystanders were wounded.	(see below)
#2: A policeman was killed and nine people were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the tense city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.	1	9
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed a man in Mosul, a hospital source said.	(see below)
#2: Gunmen killed a former Iraqi army officer on Monday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: One Soldier assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 died from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province August 27.			1
#2: One Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 died August 28 from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province August 27.			1
#3: In a separate incident, one Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade 1st Armored Division died from non-hostile causes August 28.			1
Ramadi:
#1: In Ramadi city, the Iraqi police said locals have found dead bodies of two Iraqi policemen in Al-Jumhoriyah neighborhood. The two policemen were abducted on Sunday, the source pointed out.	2
IRAQ TOTALS	221	157	6	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
#1: A suicide bomber in a car struck a NATO-Afghan military convoy Tuesday, killing one civilian and wounding two others. The suicide bomber hit the military convoy on the main road linking Kandahar with the city's airport, said. Col. Sher Shah, who was in the convoy. No NATO soldiers were wounded. civilian driving near the convoy died in the blast, while another civilian and an Afghan soldier were wounded, Shah said.	1	2
#2: Another bomb, detonated by remote control, killed two police on patrol in Helmand province, an official said. The remote-controlled bomb hit a police vehicle on patrol in Grieshk district of Helmand province killing two officers, said Ghulam Muhiddin, the Helmand governor's spokesman. He blamed the Taliban.	2
#3: Another remote-controlled bomb went off in east Kabul shortly after a NATO vehicle patrol drove past, but no one was hurt, said Interior Ministry spokesman Yousef Stanezai.
In Kabul, a roadside bomb exploded early on Tuesday as a French military patrol passed, but police said there were no casualties.
#4: Meanwhile, two New Zealand soldiers serving in Afghanistan's Bamiyan province were flown to a military hospital after being injured in a road accident, a New Zealand defense spokesman said Tuesday. The soldiers were injured when the part of the road they were on gave way, causing their vehicle to roll down a 60-foot slope.				2
#5: A Turkish road worker was murdered yesterday in an armed attack on a key highway in southern Afghanistan and a Turkish citizen working for a security firm was abducted in the same attack, said Turkish Foreign Ministry officials. Diplomatic sources told the Anatolia news agency that another Turk, Rıza Özşimşek working at a construction company Jeo-Son, was killed in Afghanistan.	(see below)
The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday confirmed that two Turkish nationals working in Afghanistan were killed in an armed attack in the country. Foreign Ministry spokesman Namik Tan said that Riza Ozsimsek was found dead in the garage of a construction company near a highway between Kabul and Pul-I-Charki, while Hasan Gedik was killed in a gun attack on a highway between Khandar and Harat. A Turkish security guard was taken hostage in the same attack.	2
#6: Another Canadian soldier has been injured by a mortar attack in Afghanistan. The attack came about 6 p.m. local time yesterday, at Zhari District Centre, west of the city of Kandahar. NATO officials say several mortar rounds struck the Canadian forward operating base, injuring one Canadian soldier and one Afghan security force member. It's the second time in as many days that a Canadian has been injured by mortars at the base, and the third attack in the last 36 hours. Early Sunday, a Canadian soldier and six Afghans were injured by mortar rounds.		1		1
#7: Two policemen were meanwhile killed while on patrol in volatile Helmand province when a mine exploded underneath their vehicle, provincial government spokesman Mohayedin Khan said.	2
#8: And in Zabul -- another province in the south -- a remote-controlled bomb struck a vehicle of men travelling to neighbouring Kandahar province, to visit the governor. Four men, friends of the governor, were wounded, local police chief Noor Mohammad Pakteen said, and their identities were not released.		4
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	7	7	0	3
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	234	167	401
28-Aug-06	208	197	405
27-Aug-06	116	115	231
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	2250	2472	4722
Daily average, August 2006	78	85	163