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

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.

The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

Whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it's just lies and, let's say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.

We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.

The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.