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.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

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

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.