Action Quote by Jo Cox

There is nothing in common between al-Assad and ISIS, they fight against each other.

— Vladimir Putin

Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.

— Jo Cox

I think that ISIS is a problem and it's really a symptom of a much greater problem.

— Jeh Johnson

The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other…

— Peter Bergen

We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting…

— Donald Trump

[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

— Marco Rubio

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have…

— Donald Trump

If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success…

— Jack Keane

It's - getting Assad out is not the only priority. And so what we're trying to do is obviously defeat ISIS.

— Nikki Haley

Isis combatants, foreign and domestic, plan to attack us regardless of whether we extend airstrikes into Syria. The deadly and fanatical nature of this…

— Wes Streeting

There's an agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united; that it needs to be secular; that ISIL needs to be taken on;…

— John F. Kerry

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS.

— Richard Engel