We’ve been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe didn’t say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.
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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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You can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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There’s a video on YouTube where the terrorists clearly make trials [of chemical weapons] on a rabbit and kill the rabbit and said “this is how we’re going to kill the Syrian people.”
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Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it’ll soon happen elsewhere.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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It’s not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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We’re not like the American administration, we’re not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we’ll announce it.
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You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Trust that the thing in life that excites you the most comes complete with all the tools necessary to support you in the doing of that thing. It is automatic; it is built in. All you need to do is act on the opportunities that doing that situation brings to you.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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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.
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