Men ride a motorcycle in front of a cloth placed to cover the street from whom activists say are snipers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, in Saif al-Dawla district of Aleppo September 21, 2013. REUTERS/Zaid Rev
BERLIN (Reuters) - Syria is descending into a Somalia-style failed state run by warlords which poses a grave threat to the future of the Middle East, former peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said.
Brahimi, who stepped down a week ago after the failure of peace talks he mediated in Geneva, said that without concerted efforts for a political solution to Syria's brutal civil war "there is a serious risk that the entire region will blow up."
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