KABUL (AP) — The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan’s worsening conflict jumped 40 percent to a new high last year, and more than half of the deaths were inflicted by Taliban insurgents and other militants, the United Nations said Tuesday. The report said insurgents increasingly use roadside bombs, car bombs and suicide bombers in attacks that are “undertaken regardless of the impact on civilians.” In the latest such attack, the U.S. military reported a roadside bomb killed five civilians Monday in Kandahar province.–Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]