In any war, people will pay the price.

Armies are not only for offensives.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

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.

The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.

We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.

We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.