Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything..

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral..

It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion..

We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional gov….

I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don't feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any o….

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss..

The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidenc….

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West..

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions..

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party..

Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yeste….

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at ….

We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ;….

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army..

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military ba….

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments..

There's a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said "this is how we're….

If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller t….

If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda - go ahead. That's what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don't talk a….

Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that's called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You're right about t….

You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct ….