Attacking Quote by Richard Engel

Bashar Assad has been so brutal toward the Sunni within Syria that he created the space that led to the people of Syria themselves…

— Marco Rubio

President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

— Vladimir Putin

The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.

— Jack Keane

ISIS was able to grow because the Obama administration stuck its head in the sand rather than address the emerging problem.

— Will Hurd

In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy…

— Barack Obama

Adding to your list of enemies is never a sound strategy, yet ISIS' ferocious campaign against the Shia, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, and Muslims who…

— Peter Bergen

ISIS is even at war with its most natural ally, al Qaeda in Syria.

— Peter Bergen

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

— Marco Rubio

Like Hamas, ISIS was deeply embedded in urban areas. And the international coalition against ISIS worked hard to protect civilians and create humanitarian corridors.

— Lloyd Austin

ISIS is in many ways a creation of the Syrian regime.

— Richard Engel

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

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

— Vladimir Putin