Lakhdar Brahimi

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  UN Syria Envoy Opens Wide-Ranging Talks In Geneva

  The UN's peace envoy for Syria today launched wide-ranging consultations in Geneva with regional and domestic players, including Iran, in a bid to revive stalled talks to end the conflict.

• Staffan De Mistura Succeeds Lakhdar Brahimi as UN Envoy for Syria

  Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura was named UN mediator for Syria, taking on the challenging task of finding a political solution to the dragging civil war.

• Syria Peace Envoy Quits Amid New Chemical Arms Fears

  The United Nations peace envoy for Syria threw in the towel after failing to start a meaningful dialogue, as France accused Damascus of continuing to use chemical weapons.

• International Syria Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi to Step Down on May 31

  International Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will step down on May 31 after nearly two years of seeking an end to "the brutal and still worsening" civil war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.

• Syria peace talks make little progress, says envoy

  Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are not making much progress, the international mediator said on Tuesday after a face-to-face meeting of the warring parties in Geneva that both sides called fruitless.

• Second round of Syria talks makes faltering start

  A second round of Syria peace talks got off to a shaky start on Monday with the international mediator meeting the two sides separately after violations of a local ceasefire and an Islamist offensive set back his efforts.

• Syrian civil war foes meet for first time, focus on aid

  Syria's civil war foes held their first face-to-face meeting on Saturday at the start of talks to end nearly three years of conflict which has killed 130,000 people and destabilised the wider Middle East.

• Peace envoy Brahimi urges truce as bomb rocks Damascus

  Syria peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi appealed to both sides to call a truce to the conflict during a Muslim holiday this week after talks with President Bashar al-Assad, as a deadly blast rocked Damascus.

• Peace envoy Brahimi meets Syrian President Assad

  International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday, hoping to breathe life into stalled peace efforts, 18 months into Syria's deadly conflict.

• UN confirms Algeria's Brahimi to replace Annan as Syria envoy

  The United Nations on Friday confirmed that veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi will replace former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the international mediator on Syria as the 17-month-old conflict slides deeper into civil war.

• Algeria's Brahimi could replace Annan as Peace Envoy to Syria

  Former Algerian foreign affairs minister Lakhdar Brahimi is a strong candidate to replace Kofi Annan as peace envoy to Syria, diplomats have said. They said Brahimi was a strong possibility, while other contenders are ex-Spanish foreign affairs minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and Spain's Javier Solana, a former NATO chief and European Union foreign...