A bomb is a bomb, what's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it.

You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it's an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.