Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an….

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves..

It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it..

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders..

I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and th….

At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring..

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed..

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented ….

As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when y….

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their li….

We feel pain for every Syrian victim..

I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including S….

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land..

It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society..

Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide ….

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting you….

We don't discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes ….

What the army is doing is cleaning those areas, and the indication that the army is strong is that it's making advancement in that area. It never wen….

There can be no peace without unity..

Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn't be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends..

When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction withi….