We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call "free Syrian army." That's what we said.

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

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

You can forge anything these days, and we're living in a fake news era.

"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.

Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.

From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.