U.S. officials say they are concerned the political instability makes it difficult for Pakistan to play a meaningful role in helping to find a way to end the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
The latter also should take the lead in negotiating a formal peace agreement to end a war which technically continues (a ceasefire ended the fighting in 1953).
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Syria accused Brahimi of bias Thursday, casting a shadow on efforts to end a war that, according to the United Nations, has killed more than 60, 000 people in nearly two years.
Just as there has never been a war to end all wars, there has yet to be an economic theory that can end all serious instability.
This has been suspended for the past year, principally because the Irish Republican Army (IRA) refused to announce a definitive end to its long war against British rule in Northern Ireland (see table below).
In May 2009, Sri Lankan troops mounted a massive campaign to end the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist group better known as the Tamil Tigers.
An amnesty law was introduced in 2000 to try to end a war waged by Kony and his LRA fighters for more than two decades.
The Democratic leadership will now face furious recriminations from the party's left, which insists that the November elections gave them a mandate to end the war in Iraq.
The policies of all the major players, such as the US, Nato, and Pakistan, as well as Afghanistan, are changing while they try to seek a way to end the war and pull out their troops.
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Having campaigned against the war in Iraq while emphasising the need to do more in Afghanistan, Mr Obama will face a continuing temptation to end the former war while reinforcing the latter.
Unable to escape the fierce hatreds that rage around him, he becomes a casualty in a war he is determined to prosecute toward a just end.
At the same time, they don't want to be seen as signing on to a huge and almost open end to commitment to the war.
Some of them were surprisingly frank when they spoke to my colleagues about fighting at the fag end of a war and handing over control to others.
Before you think Lycerius is just an unfeeling ruler, he said he does want to find a way to end the longstanding war.
President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan, where he signed an historic agreement between the United States and Afghanistan that defines how the partnership between the United States and Afghanistan will be normalized as we look beyond a responsible end to the war.
At an Organisation of African Unity meeting in Algiers, attended by a record 42 leaders, Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to a plan to end their 13-month border war.
Martin Raguz, a Croat leader, says that the constitution agreed in 1995 to end Bosnia's war has hit a brick wall.
Uganda and Sudan agreed earlier this month to end a festering proxy war on their frontier.
Now, however, the period of something like a phoney war is drawing to an end.
But you do not have to end up in a war over whose rules, if any, you will adopt.
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And while the concepts reach back to Shakespeare and Moliere, John Tillinger, the director of "Don't Dress for Dinner, " points out that Aristophanes's "Lysistrata, " in which women withhold sex as a means of bringing an end to war, qualifies, as well.
Back in the Sun , its leader column is devoted to a plea for Tony Blair and the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, to end what the paper perceives as a "war" over who should take the credit for the booming economy.
The economic aid to Iraq started in 1983, and by the end of the war amounted to more than a billion dollars.
As a candidate he vowed to responsibly end the war he would inherit.
America and Israel want to end this war in a way that transforms the balance of power in the Levant.
Babrak Babarkhale, a former journalist and Mujahadeen fighter in the war to end Soviet occupation in the 1980s, said he planned to vote for Abdullah because he was fed up with corruption.
Japan and Australia, sponsors of rival grand commissions when a potential nuclear-free window opened at the cold war's end, have joined forces to set up a new one.
Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France.
It put an end to a five-year war that had cost between 3 and 4 million lives.
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