Patrick Quinn

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 4, 2013. Karzai says the director of the CIA assured him that regular funding his government receives from the agency will not be cut off. He says Afghanistan has been receiving such funding for more than 10 years and expressed hope at a Saturday news conference that it will not stop.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

7 American service members killed in Afghanistan

Rahim Faiez, Patrick Quinn · May 4, 2013 4:00 am

UN warns of ‘troubling rise’ in Afghan violence

UN warns of ‘troubling rise’ in Afghan violence

Patrick Quinn · April 24, 2013 1:41 pm

Taliban say foreign prisoners in good health

Taliban say foreign prisoners in good health

Patrick Quinn · April 23, 2013 1:10 pm

An Afghan Army soldier rests on his armored vehicle during a patrol outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 15, 2013. Despite questions about the ability of the Afghan army to successfully take the fight to the insurgency, U.S. and coalition military officials say that the nascent force has made great strides in the past year and has surpassed many of their expectations. (AP Photo/Jawad Jalali)

Some hopeful signs out of the Afghan army

Patrick Quinn · April 16, 2013 4:00 am

Gen. Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, commander of Afghanistan's 203rd Thunder Corps, reacts during a press conference at his headquarters in Gardez, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Despite questions about the ability of the Afghan army to successfully take the fight to the insurgency, U.S. and coalition military officials say that the nascent force has made great strides in the past year and has surpassed many of their expectations. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Some hopeful signs out of the Afghan army

Patrick Quinn · April 15, 2013 4:00 am

This image made from AP video shows Afghan National Army soldiers rushing to the scene moments after a car bomb exploded in front the PRT, Provincial Reconstruction Team, in Qalat, Zabul province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, April 6, 2013. Three U.S. soldiers, two U.S. civilians and a doctor were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives just as a convoy with the international military coalition drove past another convoy of vehicles carrying the governor of Zabul province. (AP Photo via AP video)

6 Americans, doctor killed in Afghan attacks

Mirwais Khan, Patrick Quinn · April 6, 2013 4:00 am

FILE-This Feb. 18, 2012 file photo shows Pakistani Army soldiers with the 20th Lancers Armored Regiment, carry up supplies atop the 8000 foot mountain near their outpost Kalpani Base in Pakistan's Dir province on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Relations between the two countries have not been good in recent years, with Afghanistan often blaming Pakistan for supporting insurgents that are fighting both NATO troops and government forces. Major attacks and suicide bombings are regularly blamed on Pakistan, playing to a domestic audience that increasingly considers its neighbor responsible for the war.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Afghan relations with Pakistan at new low

Patrick Quinn · April 4, 2013 4:00 am

A security official stands guard the scene of a suicide car bomb attack which killed and injured several people at the National Directorate of Security in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb 24, 2013. A series of early morning attacks hit eastern Afghanistan Sunday, with three separate suicide bombings in outlying provinces and a shootout between security forces and a would-be attacker in the capital city of Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan: US special forces must leave province

Patrick Quinn · February 25, 2013 5:00 am

NATO and Afghan forces kill 25 insurgents

NATO and Afghan forces kill 25 insurgents

Patrick Quinn · February 20, 2013 12:06 pm

FILE - In this March 22, 2011, file photo, Afghan National Special Force soldiers patrol during a training session, seen through a destroyed building at Camp Morehead on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. soldiers serving in one of southern Afghanistan's most violent areas say they are successfully training the Afghans to secure their country and their progress so far will play a large role in determining how many more American troops President Barack Obama sends home next year. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

National Security

In Afghan Taliban birthplace, US troops step back

Patrick Quinn · December 23, 2012 4:20 pm

UN: Over 2 million Afghans at risk this winter

Patrick Quinn · December 12, 2012 4:06 pm

Afghans set presidential poll date; Taliban jeer

Afghans set presidential poll date; Taliban jeer

Patrick Quinn · October 31, 2012 4:00 am