Slideshow: Syria uprising (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/48244949/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=48244949&wbSection=news)(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-120719-syria-uprising/ss-121016-syria-tease.photoblog600.jpg) (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/48244949/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=48244949&wbSection=news)Fabio Bucciarelli / AFP - Getty ImagesA look back at the violence that has overtaken the countryLaunch slideshowBy Charlene Gubash, NBC NewsUnited Nations peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi hopes to persuade Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to comply with a four-day truce during the Muslim holiday marking the Hajj, which begins Oct. 25, but many in the opposition remain skeptical about his plan.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) Brahimi, who arrived in the capital Damascus on Friday afternoon, will meet Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem on Saturday morning, said the U.N. spokesman in Damascus, Khaled al-Masri. He did not say whether the envoy would meet Assad.
"We will talk about the ceasefire and the Syrian issue in general. It is important to decrease the violence - we will talk with the government and political parties and civil society about the Syrian issue," Brahimi told reporters upon arrival.
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