Richard Holbrooke

CHICAGO (WLS) - Newly elected Illinois Senator Mark Kirk was the pivotal vote that prevented a nearly $1.3 Trillion monster spending bill from passing Thursday night. Kirk was the 41st vote that caused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give up …

Senior State Department officials, stunned by the sudden death of uber-diplomat Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, are concerned that the all-star team of experts he had assembled - all intensely loyal to…

Richard Holbrooke's final words: As Holbrooke was sedated for surgery, his final words were to his Pakistani surgeon, family members said: "You've got to stop this War in Afghanistan." And Lesbian-bondage-strippers everywhere cheer: In the …

Vice President Joe Biden commented on the death of US Diplomat Richard Holbrooke. "Today, I lost a great friend and America lost one of its greatest warriors for peace. Richard Holbrooke was a larger than life figure, who through his brilliance, d…

Longtime U.S. diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, whose relentless prodding and deft maneuvering yielded the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended the war in Bosnia - a success he hoped to repeat as President Obama's chief Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakis…

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and one of Washington's most experienced Diplomats, died in a US Hospital Monday as the Obama administration reviews its strategy in Afghanistan. H…

Richard Holbrooke, 69, died this evening as a result of cardiac complications despite a twenty-hour emergency surgery on Friday to repair a torn aorta. He underwent a second surgery on Sunday. He has been often referred to as the 'Bulldozer' for h…

Veteran U.S. diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, 69, whose relentless prodding and deft maneuvering yielded the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended the war in Bosnia, a feat he hoped to emulate as President Obama’s chief Envoy to Afghanistan and…