Iraq

According to the Interior Ministry, 1,773 civilians, 21 soldiers, 66 police and 472 insurgents were killed this month. (CNN.com)

North Korea

According to the government, severe flooding, besides the death and hardship it inflicted on the people, wiped out over 11 percent of the land for maize and grains and caused considerable damage to infrastructure. (Reuters)

1 AUGUST 2007

Iraq

A fuel tanker was used to attack Baghdad's Mansour district, killing at least 50 people. Three other car bomb attacks in Baghdad killed 19.

In Mosul, a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a shootout with Iraqi troops. (CNN.com)

2 AUGUST 2007

Iraq

Haitham Sabah al-Badri, a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq, was killed by an airstrike east of Samarra. The US military said al-Badri masterminded the February 2006 attack on the al-Askariya mosque in Samarra. (CNN.com)

4 AUGUST 2007

Pakistan

A suicide car bomber killed eight people in Parachinar. (CNN.com)

6 AUGUST 2007

Iraq

A suicide bomber killed at least 28 people near Tal Afar. In Baghdad, bomb attacks killed about a dozen people. (CNN.com)

Israel, West Bank

Prime Minister Olmert met PA president Abbas in Jericho. (AP)

10 AUGUST 2007

Diplomatic affairs, Iraq

The UN Security Council unanimously voted to expand the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq to include fostering regional dialogue on border security, energy and refugees, promoting discussion on national reconciliation, and other matters. (CNN.com)

Iraq

A suicide car bomb in Kirkuk killed at least 7 people and wounded 47. (CNN.com)

11 AUGUST 2007

Sierra Leone, politics

Presidential and parliamentary elections were held. In the presidential contest, Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) won 44.3% of the vote, Vice President Soloman Berewa of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) won 38.3% and Charles Margai of the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) won 13.9%. Koroma and Berewa were scheduled for a runoff on 8 September. (www.rulers.org, Reuters)

In the parliamentary elections, the APC won 59 of 124 seats, up from 27 in the May 2002 elections; the SLPP won 43, down from 83 (IFES)

Iraq

Qadisiya province Gov. Khalil Jalil Hamza and the province's police chief, Brig .Gen. Khalid Abed Hassan, were killed when a roadside bomb struck their convoy in Afek. (CNN.com)

13 AUGUST-1 SEPTEMBER 2007

Iraq

About 10,000 coalition troops and 6,000 Iraqi troops carried out Operation Lightning Hammer, an offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq elements in Diyala province. (CNN.com)

14 AUGUST 2007

Iraq

There were suicide truck bomb attacks on Qahtaniya, al-Jazeera and Tal Uzair, villages in the north between Mosul and the Syrian border. According to national and regional government officials, around 500 people were killed, 320 were wounded, and at least 30 houses and other buildings were destroyed.1

Iraqi and US forces conducted major raids in Baghdad against Shiite militants.

A suicide bomber killed eight people in the Taji area, just north of Baghdad. (CNN.com)

16 AUGUST 2007

Nigeria

There were clashes in Port Harcourt between security forces and supporters of gang leader Soboma George. (AP)

Iraq

A bomb in central Baghdad killed at least nine people. (CNN.com)

17 AUGUST 2007

Germany

A court announced it had ordered the early release on parole of Red Army Faction member Eva Haule. (AP)

18 AUGUST 2007

Kazakhstan, politics

In parliamentary elections, President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party won every available seat. OSCE monitors said the elections did not meet international standards. (Reuters)

19 AUGUST 2007

Thailand

Voters approved a new constitution drafted by the military government by a 57.6% to 41.1% margin. (Reuters, AP)

20 AUGUST 2007

Iraq

Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, governor of Muthanna province, was killed by a roadside bomb in Samawa. (CNN.com)

25 AUGUST 2007

India

Two bomb attacks in Hyderabad killed at least 44 people and wounded over 100. (CNN.com)

27 AUGUST 2007

Japan, politics

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in a cabinet shake up, named Nobutaka Machimura to be foreign minister and Masahiko Komura to be defense minister. (Reuters)

Iraq

A suicide bombing attack on a mosque in Falluja killed 12 people. (CNN.com)

27-28 AUGUST 2007

Iraq

There were clashes in Karbala and Baghdad between the Medhi Army militia and forces associated with the Badr Organization. (CNN.com)

28 AUGUST 2007

Israel

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas met Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at Olmert's Jerusalem residence. (AP)

28-29 AUGUST 2007

Turkey, politics

Parliament elected foreign minister Abdullah Gul to be President. The next day, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan named a new cabinet with Ali Babacan as foreign minister, who was to also remain in his role as chief negotiator in the EU membership talks. (Reuters)

29-30 AUGUST 2007

Chile

A small labor protest in Santiago degenerated into rioting and clashes with police. (AP)

Notes

1. "Iraqi officials: Truck bombings killed at least 500", CNN.com, 15 August 2007; "Coalition death toll in Iraq hits 4,000", CNN.com, 16 August 2007.