Actually Quote by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Russia and Iran back Assad, but are they fighting Daesh? The answer is 'no.'

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Fighting the terrorists in Syria is not only in the interest of Syria or the Syrian people; in the interest of the Middle East,…

— Bashar al-Assad

And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided…

— John F. Kerry

People have been fed misinformation. The fact is that the fighting that is going on on the ground in Syria is with Al Qaeda,…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately…

— John McCain

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 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

Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria is simply the maintenance of…

— Peter Bergen

Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.

— Rashid Khalidi

For Putin, Syria is all too reminiscent of Chechnya. Both conflicts pitted the state against disparate and leaderless opposition forces, which over time came…

— Fiona Hill

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

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