Fares Halabi
@FaresHalabi
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Governance, Security and IR.
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined February 2011
🇱🇧The most important thing to understand about Lebanon’s financial gap law is that its structure is intentional. This law was not written this way because policymakers lacked better options. It was written this way because better options would have forced them to say the one
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I've never heard of the Lebanese MB operating in Syria before, it also doesn't make sense since all its activity against Israel post-10/7 was from Lebanese territory. Unless Israel divulges more information than just claiming this, it doesn't really pass the smell test.
Israel claims its attack in Beit Jinn, Syria was due to an alleged Jama'ah Islamiyah (Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood) cell planning an attack on Israel. The Lebanese MB denies any involvement in activities outside of Lebanon.
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We just published a new report based on months of fieldwork and interviews to better understand current security issues in Syria since the downfall of the regime.
NEW REPORT | Restoring Security in Post-Assad Syria Two major crises have tested Syria’s new government. Its heavy-handed response has alienated parts of society. To keep the transition on track, it needs to remedy flaws in its security approach. https://t.co/hsZgnGs6J2
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NEW -- Saudi Arabia will take "imminent steps" to bolster commercial ties with Lebanon after authorities showed efficacy curbing drug smuggling, senior Saudi official tells me @Reuters Saudi banned all imports from Lebanon in 2021. Now, a first sign ties may be improving...
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(Reuters) - Syria's central bank has ordered commercial lenders to fully provision for losses tied to Lebanon's financial collapse and submit credible restructuring plans within six months, a move that could reshape the country's battered banking sector https://t.co/j1Ue9MSJUO
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Syria's central bank has ordered commercial lenders to fully provision for losses tied to Lebanon's financial collapse and submit credible restructuring plans within six months, a move that could...
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جريمة #بنت_جبيل التي استهدف فيها الاجرام الإسرائيلي عائلة لبنانية بينهم ثلاثة أطفال هي تجاوز لكل الحدود. اليوم نحن اللبنانيون مدعوون بكافة أطيافنا السياسية الى الوحدة في مواجهة هذا التصعيد الخطير ومطالبة الحكومة باخذ اقصى التدابير الممكنة مع الدول الراعية لاتفاق وقف اطلاق النار
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The targeting & killing of journalists in Gaza & the failure of the media to show collective solidarity & to take collective action is…incomprehensible. I feel a such profound sense of shame & failure. It’s not just the death of journalists. It’s the death of journalism. 1/
🚨BREAKING : Three journalists killed in a single Israeli strike; it is now confirmed that one of them is journalist Mariam Abu Daka, who has been documenting the Israeli campaign of extermination from day one.
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La famine, avec des preuves raisonnables, est confirmée dans le gouvernorat de Gaza. Après 22 mois de conflit incessant, plus d’un demi-million de personnes à Gaza font face à des conditions catastrophiques caractérisées par la faim, la misère et la mort.
BREAKING: #Famine, with reasonable evidence, is confirmed in #Gaza Governorate. After 22 months of relentless conflict, over half a million people in Gaza are facing catastrophic conditions characterised by starvation, destitution and death. https://t.co/rpwSjtMSwd
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.@GeirOPedersen an inclusive Syrian-led & Syrian-owned political process..is essential– one that safeguards rights of all, protects all, meets legitimate aspirations..& enables Syrians to determine their own future peacefully independently & democratically https://t.co/oudVyHiX0B
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Hoping for a Syria where there will no longer be massacres against anyone.
12 years since Assad murdered 1500 people in five hours with sarin gas. Hoping for a Syria were there will no longer be massacres against anybody
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All of this could have been avoided.
Today I had a warm and informative meeting with Israeli Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muwaffaq Tarif and his team. We discussed the situation in Suwayda and how to bring together the interests of all parties, de-escalate tensions, and build understanding.
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If the aim is to avoid repeating Iraq's 'federal fault' by imposing a failed model 2003/2005, you cannot now push Syria toward the opposite extreme of a centralised state. Powersharing and local governance/decentralisation must be debated by Syrians themselves; centralisation
"The idea that the Kurds want to somehow maintain a separateness, or that the Druze want to disconnect... I'm not sure that won't lead to another civil war... A centralized #Syria must develop, in which all communities are represented." - #Trump CT chief, Sebastian Gorka:
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Les Maldives. Ses plages. Ses palmiers. Ses petites maisons de vacances sur pilotis en bord de mer. L'inquiétude de la hausse du niveau de cette dernière par ailleurs. Et... ses combattants en Syrie. Je vous l'avais promis, on en parle ce jour. Les Maldives, au prorata de leur
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هذه وصيّتي، ورسالتي الأخيرة. إن وصلَتكم كلماتي هذه، فاعلموا أن إسرائيل قد نجحت في قتلي وإسكات صوتي. بداية السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته يعلم الله أنني بذلت كل ما أملك من جهدٍ وقوة، لأكون سندًا وصوتًا لأبناء شعبي، مذ فتحت عيني على الحياة في أزقّة وحارات مخيّم جباليا للاجئين،
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will explain it as 'they' (the Druze) are all sectarians, Assadists, coallborators with Israel etc. The inability to criticise the authorities even when they are destroying everybody's future, and seeing criticism as treachery - these are habits inherited from the dictatorship.
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Mohammad Rafiq Bahsass, reportedly an engineer who was volunteering at Suwayda's National Hospital on July 16, has been identified as the medical staff member seen being executed by Syrian state security forces in footage that has just emerged from the hospital.
CCTV footage from the National Hospital in Suwayda, dated July 16, 2025, has just emerged, showing members of Syria's State General Security executing one of the medical staff. The fact that members of the state can callously kill medical personnel in this manner is horrific,
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Iranian authorities must understand that the leverage/influence they once held over Lebanon & its internal political dynamics has diminished, and it is now the responsibility of the Hezb to focus on protecting what remains of the country's stability and institutions + local
The recent remarks by Iranian Foreign Minister Mr. Abbas Araghchi, in which he addressed internal Lebanese affairs that are in no way the concern of the Islamic Republic, are firmly rejected and condemned. Such statements undermine Lebanon’s sovereignty, unity, and stability, and
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The tides have turned. He used to be one of Druze shaykhs willing to engage/work with the new Syrian government. At this point, I don’t think there will be a return to any status quo from before a month ago.
#شاهد: "لقد ابتُلينا بسلطة ومن معها لا عهد لهم ولا ذمة.. سلطة باعت الوطن في سوق المساومات".. كلمة سماحة الشيخ حمود الحناوي شيخ عقل طائفة الموحدين الدروز، تعليقاً على التطورات الأخيرة.
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