Accountable Quote by Richard Engel

“A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty, Syria is…

— David Roberts

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

— Richard Engel

President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.

— Richard Engel

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

The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able…

— Elliott Abrams

You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to…

— Rashid Khalidi

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 United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.

— Mike Pence

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to…

— Derek Chollet

I'm no apologist for Russia or the Assad regime, but actually, this has been staring us in the face for a number of years…

— Jeremy Hunt

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 transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And…

— Anonymous