Afghanistan War News Updates -- September 28, 2011

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U.S. soldiers and Afghan border patrolmen walk up a mountainside while providing security during a patrol outside Forward Operating Base Curry in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sept. 20, 2011. The soldiers arre assigned to Company B, 172nd Infantry Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Spc. George Hunt

More Insecurity, Civilian Casualties In Afghanistan: U.N. -- Reuters

(Reuters) - Afghanistan has become more insecure in 2011 from a year ago, with a sharp rise in security incidents and higher numbers of civilian casualties, displaced people and complex suicide attacks, a U.N report said on Wednesday.

The total number of security incidents recorded during the first eight months of the year represented a nearly 40 percent rise from the same period of 2010.

And while most violence -- about two-thirds -- was concentrated in the country's south and southeast, suicide attacks became more common outside that area, with the central region accounting for one in five.

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More News on Afghanistan

U.N.: Violence on rise in Afghanistan -- CNN
UN: Clashes, bombings on rise in Afghanistan -- Yahoo News/AP
More insecurity, civilian casualties in Afghanistan: U.N. -- Yahoo News/Reuters
U.N. worried about assassinations in Afghanistan -- UPI
UN Report Shows Grim Afghan Situation -- Radio Free Europe
Afghan war violence up nearly 40%: UN -- Hindustan Times/AFP

ISAF Joint Command morning operational update -- Dvids
New Zealand mourns special forces soldier -- The Australian
Second New Zealand SAS soldier killed in Afghanistan -- Herald Sun
NZ SAS soldier killed in Afghanistan -- Sydney Morning Herald
NZ loses second SAS soldier in a month -- The Australian
Soldier's death prompts calls to withdraw troops -- Stuff.co.uk

8 Afghan policemen killed at checkpoint -- AP
Afghanistan: Eight police killed at Helmand checkpoint -- BBC
Afghanistan: eight policemen shot dead in checkpoint attack -- The Telegraph
Afghan police officers killed in checkpoint attack -- The Guardian
8 policemen killed, 3 injured in checkpoint attack in S. Afghanistan -- Xinhuanet
Taliban attacks kill 10 in Afghanistan -- CNN
10 killed in Afghan city spearheading transition -- CBS/AP

Airstrike Kills Key Taliban Fighter in Afghanistan -- US Department of Defense
Bomber Aims at Merchant Used by Police in Afghanistan -- New York Times
Drugs worth $350 million seized in Afghanistan-NATO -- Reuters
Drugs worth $350 million destroyed in Afghanistan -- Forbes/AP

Antidote To Afghanistan's Opium Addiction: Red Gold -- Economy watch
A Logistics Nightmare -- Erin Fitzgerald, Huffington Post
The Assassination Next Door -- Camelia Entekhabifard, New York Times
How to leave a strong Afghanistan -- Jeremi Suri, CNN
This War Can Still Be Won -- Fernando M. Lujan, New York Times

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 1,670 -- AP