The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at the same time they are the main supply of our army for more than sixty years, so our army depends on the Russian support in different military domains.

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.

We didn't say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.