[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.

From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate that area [eastern part of Aleppo] and the civilians from those terrorists, and at the same time to try to find a solution to evacuate that area from those terrorists if they accept, let's say, what you call it reconciliation option, in which they either give up their armaments for amnesty, or they leave that area.

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

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

It's very simple ; once the Western countries stop supporting those terrorists and making pressure on their puppet countries and client states like Saudi Arabia and Turkey and others, you'll have no problem in Syria. It will be solved easily.

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

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.