Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East, of Europe itself - something that many officials in the West don't see or don't realize or don't acknowledge - and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.

We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and at the same time for the humanitarian convoys and help to go through those gates inside that part of Aleppo, but the terrorists publicly refused any solution, so they wanted to keep the situation as it is.