Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That's the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that's definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.

In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

The first thing Syrian refugees want is to be able to live within Syria. That means help, humanitarian help, the way we understand it, food, medical care, any other, let's say, basics for the daily life.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.