Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that's just the way it is.

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.