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

Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators anymore ; that's why they have incubators abroad. They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don't have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don't have problems.

Hezbollah fighters are on the borders with Lebanon where the terrorists attacked them. On the borders with Lebanon, this is where Hezbollah retaliated, and this is where we have cooperation, and that's good.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge.

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.