Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

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

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.

We don't discuss this issue [ chemical weapons ] in public because we never said that we have it, and we never said that we don't have it. It's a Syrian issue ; it's a military issue we never discuss in public with anyone.

Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.

We're talking about one region, bigger regions, not only about Syria. This interlinked region, this intermingled, interlocked, whatever you want to call it ; if you strike somewhere, you have to expect the repercussions somewhere else in different forms in ways you don't expect.