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.

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.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

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

To have or not to have [chemical weapons] is a possibility, but to depend on what media says is nonsense, or to depend on some of the reports of the intelligence is nonsense and that was proven when they invaded Iraq ten years ago and they said "Iraq has stockpiles of WMD" and it was proven after the invasion that this was false ; it was fraud. So, we can't depend on what one magazine wrote.

We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.