Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.