Country Quote by Rashid Khalidi

I think it was going to be hard to work with Russians on Syria. There is some potential overlap between the U.S. and Russia…

— Richard N. Haass

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.

— David Ignatius

Syria is no longer Syria. Syria is Russia and it's Iran, who Hillary Clinton made strong and Kerry and Obama made into a very…

— Donald Trump

Russia has a long-term interest in Syria. Israel by and large does not have an issue with those long-term interests that Russia has in…

— Ron Dermer

Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

The Russians have an interest inside of Syria. They want to boost up the Assad regime. They want to give moral support and international…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other people, other…

— Bashar al-Assad

First of all, I don't believe that the United States has any strategic interest in Syria. I think, from a strategic point of view,…

— John Mearsheimer

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

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

— James G. Stavridis

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to…

— Mitch McConnell

It's very simple ; once the Western countries stop supporting those terrorists and making pressure on their puppet countries and client states like Saudi…

— Bashar al-Assad