We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country.
ADEL AL-JUBEIRThat would be a different story. But I don’t think World War III is going to happen in Syria.
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We expressed our readiness to join the US-led, international coalition against Daesh with special forces.
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Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations
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Twenty million Russians are Muslims.
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A coalition that was led by the United States, with Saudi Arabia being one of the first members of that coalition.
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The longer it takes, the worse it will get.
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The Russians say their objective is to defeat Daesh, too.
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We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.
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It seems people don’t read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken.
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Is Russia worried that defeating Daesh will open the door for defeating Bashar Assad?
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Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments.
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We have a legal system, and we have a penal code.
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Our concern is that Iran will use the income it receives as a result of the lifting of the nuclear sanctions in order to fund its nefarious activities in the region.
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Daesh is attacking us. Their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, wants to destroy the Saudi state.
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We have no issue with seeking to develop the best terms we can with Iran.
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When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism.
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