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.

Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.

When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.

If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore.

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

It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.

You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.