Activities Quote by Douglas Feith

One of the most missed components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar al-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq.…

— Malcolm Nance

Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and…

— Samantha Power

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq…

— Walid Jumblatt

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations…

— William Hague

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

— Anonymous

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

— Walid Muallem

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

— Sam Brownback

It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role…

— David Ignatius

Our priority is to go after ISIL. And so what we have said is that we are not engaging in a military action against…

— Barack Obama

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is…

— Ike Skelton

What ISIS has proven is that they're not only active in Syria and Iraq, but they're active in Europe.

— Haim Saban

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but…

— Paul Gillmor