We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn't send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
Bashar al-AssadThat the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
Bashar al-Assad[Chemical weapons] isn't about what the United States believe in, it's about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don't have to discuss it.
Bashar al-Assad