The US diplomat credited with bringing peace to the Balkans has died at the age of 69.
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who was of Jewish descent, was serving as the Obama administration's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He was admitted to hospital on Friday for a torn aorta, but died after unsuccessful surgery.
A diplomat since the 1960s, Mr Holbrooke worked for every Democrat president since John F Kennedy. He served in Vietnam in the 1960s, and later as a mbassador to Germany . Most notoriously he was Assistant Secretary of State for Europe under President Bill Clinton.