Assad Quote by John F. Kerry

Russia is not engaged in a fight against Daesh in Syria. On the contrary, they are actually targeting moderate opposition.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Russians don't want to fight ISIS in Syria. They want to leave that to us. Aside from that, I don't know what are the…

— Michael McFaul

If Russia is there [in Syria] alone fighting them [ISIL], guess what? Russia becomes the target and Russia starts seeing - who knows -…

— John F. Kerry

Trump has got to define what he seeks to achieve with Russia, and then use diplomacy and sometimes coercion to achieve those ends. Right…

— Michael McFaul

I see a bit of a contradiction between the fight against the Islamic State and the desire to remove the Assad regime. And even…

— Judy Woodruff

The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.

— John F. Kerry

Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For…

— Corey Flintoff

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a…

— Hillary Clinton

Russia wants to defeat ISIS as badly as America does. If we had a relationship with Russia, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could…

— Donald Trump

Ironically, from our perspective, Russia finds Iran a stabilizing force. This is because Iran provides a counterweight to all of the Sunni Muslim powers…

— Fiona Hill

I had a chance to talk with President [Vladimir] Putin and he clearly said to me very directly, "I will think about that. I…

— John F. Kerry

Today Russia announced that it will join America's fight with the terror group ISIS. Then Putin said, "But I did not say which side.

— Jimmy Fallon