Richard Holbrooke critically ill after heart surgery
Barack Obama says he is praying for Richard Holbrooke after diplomat undergoes 20 hours of surgery to fix tear in aorta
July 2010
Pakistan at heart of regional peace effort, says Richard Holbrooke
Special envoy in London as part of UK-US talks about building on 'complicated but indispensable' relationship with Pakistan
February 2010
Senior Afghan Taliban leaders arrested in Pakistan
News comes as US special envoy Richard Holbrooke visits Islamabad and bomb blast kills 29 in tribal north-west
December 2009
Richard Holbrooke denies attempt to bypass Karzai
Obama envoy in Afghanistan derides as 'bullshit' a Guardian report that he wants install a 'high representative' in Kabul
March 2009
Barack Obama's troubleshooter Richard Holbrooke unveils strategy to halt Afghanistan 'drift'
Non-military aspects of campaign emphasised as Barack Obama concedes 'drift' and looks for way out
October 2008
Fragile, but stable
Niheer Dasandi
Niheer Dasandi: Paddy Ashdown and Richard Holbrooke are wrong - and their warnings are alarmist. Bosnia is not about to erupt into war again
November 2001
The fixer
Jonathan Freedland
He was the man who did most to bring peace to the Balkans. So what would Richard Holbrooke, now leader of a task force on terrorism, do about the current crisis? He talks to Jonathan Freedland about Bin Laden, the nuclear threat and the future of Afghanistan.
March 1999
Milosevic facing West's last big gun
United States Balkans envoy Richard Holbrooke was wheeled out yesterday as the West's last diplomatic big gun to persuade the stubborn Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic, to sign up to an autonomy deal for Kosovo and Nato peacekeeping troops to enforce it.
