

Then-US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke (c.) is escorted by Gen. Wesley Clark upon arrival at the Sarajevo airport for talks in the Bosnian capital with government leaders to further peace efforts in the region in 1995. Holbrooke, a longtime US diplomat who wrote part of the Pentagon Papers, was the architect of the 1995 Bosnia peace plan, and served as President Obama's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, passed away on Dec. 13. Jacqueline Arzt/AP/FILE
Then-special US envoy for the Balkans Richard Holbrooke sits with an unidentified Kosovo Liberation Army soldier at their headquarters in Junik in 1998. Mr. Holbrooke was instrumental in securing the release of detained journalist David Rohde, who won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting about a 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia, for The Christian Science Monitor. Reuters/FILE
Richard Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, briefs reporters at the State Department in Washington on July 13. Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP/File
Richard Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 28 before the House State and Foreign Operations subcommittee hearing on the oversight of US civilian assistance for Afghanistan. Alex Brandon/AP/File
Richard Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan under the Obama administration, listens to Maj. Gen. Richard P. Mills, commanding general of the First Marine Expeditionary Force in Helmand, during Hoolbrooke's visit to Marjah, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, June 21. Abdul Khaleq/AP/File
US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke (l.), co-chairs a session with Pakistan's finance minister, Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, during the Pakistan Development Forum in Islamabad on Nov. 14. Adrees Latif/Reuters/File
US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, talks to media at the European Council building in Brussels, Oct. 15. Yves Logghe/AP/File
US special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, reacts during a news conference in Kabul on Oct. 27. Omar Sobhani/Reuters/File
US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke (l.), meets with displaced women during his visit to a makeshift camp for displaced people from the Swat and Buner district, in Mardan, Pakistan, on June 4, 2009. Newscom/File
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke speaks with Fats Domino at the Common Good, held at Michael's Resaurant in New York City on Nov. 9, 2007. Nick Hunt/Patrick McMullan/Sipa Press/Newscom
US Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke (l.) listens to Xanana Gusmao, leader of the National Council for Timorese Resistance in Ailue, near Dili, on Nov. 23, 1999. Darren Whiteside/Reuters/File
Ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova (c.) holds hands with US envoy Richard Holbrooke (r.) and British Ambassador to Yugoslavia Brian Donnelly in Pristina on Oct. 10, 1998. Reuters
US envoy Richard Holbrooke (r.) shakes hands with ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova (l.) May 10, 1998, in Pristina after Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to accept foreign mediation of Kosovo's demand for independence. Petar Kujundzic/Reuters
US envoy Richard Holbrooke (l.) meets ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova in the offices of the Democratic League of Kosovo May 10, 1998. Holbrook arrived in Pristina after Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to accept foreign mediation of Kosovo's demand for independence. Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
The top US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke (second l.), talks with a displaced woman from the Swat Valley during his visit to a refugee camp in Mardan, northwest Pakistan, on June 4, 2009. Holbrooke visited Pakistani refugees who have fled fighting between their country's military and Taliban guerrillas and told them that the United States can't offer them security, but it can offer them aid. Emilio Morenatti/AP
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (r.) talks with US special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke in Kabul in this February 15, 2009 file photo. Omar Sobhani/Reuters/File