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.

Our soldiers in another area were attacked chemically. Our soldiers - they went to the hospital as casualties because of chemical weapons, but in the area where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we only have pictures and allegations. We're not there ; our forces, our police, our institutions don't exist there. How can you talk about what happened if you don't have evidence ?

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it.

Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.

You can forge anything these days, and we're living in a fake news era.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.