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It is not my democracy as a person it is our democracy as a society.

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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President Of Syria
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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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Let's be realistic, every terrorist came to Syria, he came through Turkey with the support of [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan. So, fighting those terrorists is like fighting the army of Erdogan, not the Turkish army, the army of Erdogan.
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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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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.
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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.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and at the same time for the humanitarian convoys and help to go through those gates inside that part of Aleppo, but the terrorists publicly refused any solution, so they wanted to keep the situation as it is.
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Winning is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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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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It started partly as a sectarian war in some areas, but now it's not, because when you talk about sectarian war or religious war, you should have a very clear line between the sects and religions in Syria according to the geography and the demography in Syria, something we don't have.
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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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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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We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.
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To have opposition ? We have it, and you can go and meet with them. We have some of them within the government, we have some of them outside the government. They are opposition. We have it.
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Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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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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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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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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