Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.