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.
BASHAR AL-ASSADAs we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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[Chemical weapons] isn’t about what the United States believe in, it’s about the reality that we have, and this reality, we own it, we don’t have to discuss it.
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Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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I don’t believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn’t have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.
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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn’t send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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We are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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That’s all before the crisis. We always have this kind of cooperation with Iran [Supplies, weaponry].
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