From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

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

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.

[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.

Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.