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 31, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	75	185
Coalition in Iraq	4	2
Afghanis	6	2
Coalition in Afghanistan	1	0
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	86	189	275
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Thursday, August 31, 2006
IRAQ
General news (In Country):
#1: (Balad?) A Soldier from the 1st Brigade, 34th Infantry Division was killed by an improvised explosive device while conducting a route security mission at approximately 12:05 p.m., August 30.			1
Baghdad:
#1: A suicide car bomb targeting a line of cars waiting at a Baghdad gas station killed two people and wounded 13 Thursday. The suicide car bomb exploded at a gas station in the Mashtal area in eastern Baghdad, killing a woman and a man and wounding 13 people, police Cap. Mohammed Abdul-Ghani said.	(see below)
A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol killed four police commandos and wounded 11 people, including five policemen, Interior Ministry sources said. The bomb in eastern Baghdad'd Mashtal district went off by a petrol station, where a line of cars was waiting for petrol.	4	11
#2: Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen shot and killed a member of the oil ministry‘s security service and wounded another as the two were driving in a northeastern neighborhood, police said.	1	1
#3: Eight people have been wounded in a bomb blast near a Baghdad restaurant.		8
Eight people were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their minivan in the Mustansiriya District, northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.	(see above)
#4: A CONVOY of British diplomats and guards was blasted by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad today but the British embassy said no one was injured. “An incident occurred this morning involving British embassy personnel travelling outside the International Zone,” an embassy spokesman said in a statement. “There were no injuries.” Iraqi police sources said two people were hurt in the attack in the Mansour district.		2
#5: A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol killed two civilians and wounded nine in the eastern New Baghdad neighbourhood on Thursday, police said. An Interior Ministry source said the blast killed one person and wounded 15.	2	9
#6: A roadside bomb went off near a convoy of sport utility vehicles (SUV), usually used by western foreigners, wounding at least two persons, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The U.S. troops backed by two helicopters immediately cordoned off the scene, preventing the Iraqi police from approaching the area, he said. However, the police said they saw two vehicles caught fire and two wounded people were being evacuated before they were ordered to leave the scene.				2
#7: Four people were shot dead in various neighbourhoods of Baghdad	4
#8: A number of insurgent attacks also wounded more than a dozen people in the capital, six of them children who were hurt when rebels slammed a mortar round into the southern Al-Maalif neighbourhood.		12
#9: Five people were wounded, including two policemen, when a car bomb exploded in Harthiya district, in west-central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.		5
#10: A series of attacks in eastern Baghdad, including one at a popular market, killed at least 39 people and wounded 115 within a half hour, police said. The attacks in the predominantly Shiite area of the capital included two car bombs _ one at a popular market and one on a street about 1.5 miles away. The area also was hit by four mortar rounds, two rockets, a roadside bomb and a bomb in a building, police said.	(see below)
A salvo of rockets killed at least 46 people and wounded 112 in mainly Shi'ite east Baghdad on Thursday, Interior Ministry sources said. The rockets slammed into homes as families gathered in the evening. Sources said the death toll could rise as bodies were being pulled from rubble.	46	113
Baqubah:
#1: Police from the Diyala province, of which Baquba is the capital, said that at least nine people were killed in the province Thursday. In one of the attacks, gunmen stormed a shop in western Baquba's Yarmuk neighbourhood and shot dead two brothers who owned the shop, police said.	9
Gunmen in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killed two brothers in a cotton shop.	(see above)
Kut:
#1: In Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, the body of a young woman riddled with bullets was brought to the morgue after being dumped on a main road.	1
Mahaweel:
#1: In Mahaweel, about 35 miles south of Baghdad, a bomb at a wedding party wounded at least seven people, police said.		7
#2: Gunmen killed a former intelligence official in Saddam Hussein ‘s regime as he was walking in Mahaweel area, about 35 miles south of Baghdad.	1
Samawa:
#1: Four people sleeping on the rooftop of their houses were wounded in separate incidents after being hit by stray bullets from nearby clashes in Samawa, 270 km (168 miles) south of Baghdad, a Samawa General Hospital source said.		4
Jbela:
#1: One man was killed and eight others wounded when a bomb exploded at a wedding party in the small town of Jbela, 65 km (39 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.	1	8
Samarra:
#1: Turkey al-Duleimi, a civilian judge in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, was found dead in the town of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, medical sources said. They said he had been kidnapped four days ago.	1
Mosul:
#1: Two policemen were killed and two others were wounded when clashes erupted between police and gunmen in the eastern outskirts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.	2	2
#2: An Iraqi soldier wearing civilian clothing was shot and killed while walking in the city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.	1
Anbar Prv:
#1: (not confirmed) A U.S. soldier was killed in action on Wednesday by a roadside bomb explosion in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.			1
#2: One Marine assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 and one Soldier assigned to 1st Marine Logistics Group died from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province August 30.			2
Fallujah:
#1: Three people were wounded, including one policeman, when gunmen threw hand grenades at a communication centre in central Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. One of the attackers was killed, police said.	1	3
Ramadi:
#1: A former Iraqi Air Force commander under toppled leader Saddam Hussein was gunned down in the western city of Ramadi on Thursday, police said. Lieutenant-General Wajeeh Thirar Hneyfish was the commander of the Habbaniya Air Force base when Saddam was in power.	1
IRAQ TOTALS	75	185	4	2
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Thursday, August 31, 2006
#1: Taliban militants attacked a southern Afghan town today, sparking intense fighting with Afghan troops, the defence ministry said. The militants used mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns in the attack on Naw Zad, in volatile Helmand province around 8am (0430BST), said Defence Ministry spokesman Gen. Zahir Azimi. He said that the fighting between the Taliban and Afghan army troops was “intense,” but that he had no further details about the scale of the assault or casualties.	(see below)
Suspected Taliban fighters attacked the district headquarter of Nawzad in the southern province of Helmand Thursday morning with heavy artillery and rocket propelled grenades, the Defence Ministry said in a statement. The airstrikes by the NATO-led coalition pushed the militants back from the district, the statement said. Afghan forces found the bodies of two Taliban rebels near the district headquarter. According to the ministry statement no Afghan forces were injured and the exact number of the Taliban killed would be announced later.	(see below)
Afghan forces supported by coalition air strikes killed two militants, but also caused civilian casualties on Thursday in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry said. "With the support of coalition air forces, Afghan soldiers fought back the enemies in Nawzad district at 11:00 a.m. local time," the ministry said in a statement. Two militants were killed and a number of others injured, it added. It said the operation also caused casualties to the civilians. "There were civilian casualties and property damages, and the details would be released later."	4	2
#2: Meanwhile, two rockets fired from unknown locations hit the centre of Kabul early Thursday morning, but caused no casualties or damage, Interior Ministry spokesman Yousif Stanikzai said. 'Today at around 3:30am two rockets fired from east direction of the city. One rocket hit an unoccupied land near a residential area while another landed in Shari-Naw Park, but caused no casualties or damage,' he said.
#3: Kabul - Suspected Taliban fighters kidnapped two Afghan troops and then tortured and killed them while another soldier listened over the telephone, the US-led international military coalition in Afghanistan said Thursday. An officer and non-commissioned officer were captured Monday in the Qara Bagh district of the south-eastern province of Ghazni, the coalition said. Using the officer's cell phone, the militants called a member of the command of the corps with which the two soldiers were serving. The militants then tortured the two men until they died while their fellow soldier listened, the coalition said.	2
#4: NATO commanders are warning Afghans to clear out of an area near Kandahar that has become a Taliban stronghold and a thorn in the side of Canadian troops. Col. Steve Williams, the NATO deputy commander in southern Afghanistan, says his forces will launch a major operation soon to take back Panjwaii district, just west of Kandahar. Canadians and other forces have fought several pitched battles in the area, but have always withdrawn to their bases, ceding the countryside back to the Taliban. Several Canadians have died and many others have been injured in the area.
#5: A Dutch F-16 fighter pilot has died after his plane crashed in southern Afghanistan, officials say. They said that the plane was flying at a "great height" when the accident occurred, which meant that it was unlikely that it was shot down. "We therefore assume it was an accident," the Dutch defence ministry said in a statement.			1
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	6	2	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	86	189	275
30-Aug-06	114	165	279
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	2450	2826	5276
Daily average, August 2006	79	91	170