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

Those fighters, the Syrian part that you're talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society - they don't have incubators anymore ; that's why they have incubators abroad. They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don't have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don't have problems.

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

We cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot.

Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.

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.

According to what we've been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe, and let's say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.