We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.

I said we don't pin a lot of hopes of changing administrations [in U.S.] because that context has been going on for more than fifty years now, and that's expected. If they want to continue in the same position of the United States creating problems around the world, that's what they have to do: only interfering in the matters of other nations.

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.

[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.

We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn't send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.

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

When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn't matter if he's Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.