Former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi is to be named next week as the new United Nations and Arab League peace envoy to Syria in place of Kofi Annan. The 78-year-old Brahimi was a UN envoy in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks and then in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. He is being brought out of retirement to represent the United Nations and the Arab League in a diplomatic push to end the slaughter in fighting between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and anti-regime rebels. Annan said he was leaving his post because of what he said was the lack of international support for his efforts to end the 17-month-old Syria conflict.
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