The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

To have or not to have [chemical weapons] is a possibility, but to depend on what media says is nonsense, or to depend on some of the reports of the intelligence is nonsense and that was proven when they invaded Iraq ten years ago and they said "Iraq has stockpiles of WMD" and it was proven after the invasion that this was false ; it was fraud. So, we can't depend on what one magazine wrote.

We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.