If there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don't get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.