If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.

You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.

Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.

The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.