I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

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 yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

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

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

We don't discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don't have it. It's a Syrian issue ; it's a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.

Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.