United Nations Peace Envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi (C) leaves a hotel in Damascus October 28, 2013. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri
BEIRUT (Reuters) - International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks in Damascus on Monday at the end of a Middle East tour to promote a Syrian peace conference, but regional tensions have cast a pall over his mission.
Brahimi visited capitals across the Middle East to discuss plans for the "Geneva 2" meeting, tentatively set for November 23, to try to halt more than 2-1/2 years of bloodshed in Syria.
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