From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.

It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.

It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.

There's a difference between responsibility of the policy and responsibility of the practice. In any practice, you have malpractice, that's another issue. When you talk about state and President, you always talk about the decisions and the policy.

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.