You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
BASHAR AL-ASSADYou should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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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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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.
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When you talk about Al-Qaeda it doesn’t matter if he’s Syrian or American or from Europe or from Asia or Africa.
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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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You said treaties, and a Russian official said ; we have not agreement… contracts, that we have to fulfill, and those contracts are like any country ; you buy armaments, you buy anything you want.
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They need money from abroad, they need moral support and political support from abroad. They don’t have any grassroots, any incubator. So, when you stop the smuggling, we don’t have problems.
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We cannot use jihadists because it’s like shooting yourself in the foot.
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The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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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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It’s not about me, again, this fight is not my fight, it’s not the fight of the government ; it’s the fight of the country, of the Syrian people.
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In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.
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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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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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