Many Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in coexistence, which is actually more precise to call cohabitation, when people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don't expect.