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.

We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.

[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.

It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.