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

When you talk about humanitarian, it doesn't only mean to offer the people the help, the food, their necessary needs for their life. The first thing, if you ask the Syrian refugees, for example, the first thing they want is to go back to their country.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

We don't discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don't have it. It's a Syrian issue ; it's a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.

The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it's the human resources loss.