History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.

You cannot be desperate when the army is making advances. That should have happened - if we take into consideration that this presumption is correct and this is reality - you use it when you're in a desperate situation.

I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

Many Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in coexistence, which is actually more precise to call cohabitation, when people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.