Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

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.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.

Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.

We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria ; they delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.