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

[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.

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.

At the very beginning, it was fully political. When you have these terrorists, the first part of the same plan which is political should start with stopping the smuggling of terrorists coming from abroad, stopping the logistic support, the money, all kinds of support coming to these terrorists.

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.

If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.