Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don't have any ID.

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public support, whether there's the so-called "Arab spring" - it's not spring, anyway - but whether we have this or we don't, if you don't have public support, you have to quit, you have to leave. If you have public support, in any circumstances you have to stay. That's your mission, you have to help the people, you have to serve the people.

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

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.