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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
Statesperson
Sham city
Assad
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Politically
Syria
East
Middle

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The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.
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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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A bomb is a bomb, what's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.
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My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.
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We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad - nothing good.
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The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss actually, it's the human resources loss.
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.
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It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a mantle for their war and for their terrorism and for their killing and beheading and so on.
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You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.
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If you want to kill the Syrian people, who's going to support us as a government, as officials? No one.
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I think the most important part of this now is, let's say the American people, but the polls show that the majority now don't want a war, anywhere, not only against Syria.
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I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
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We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
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When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.
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The only one who can fight for these values like democracy and freedoms are the people of any country or any society, not the foreigners.
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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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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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Iran doesn't have any soldier in Syria, so how could Iran help me ?
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