Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.

Circumstances don't matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?

It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.

Any external support, if you want to call it support, let's use this world, is... how to say... it's going to be additional, but it's not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].