Army Quote by Sergei Lavrov

No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them on Syrian…

— Vladimir Putin

In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.

— Keir Starmer

The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian…

— Barack Obama

If you don't win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn't exist anymore.

— Bashar al-Assad

Isis combatants, foreign and domestic, plan to attack us regardless of whether we extend airstrikes into Syria. The deadly and fanatical nature of this…

— Wes Streeting

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

— Vladimir Putin

We have staring us in the face here an enormous opportunity to actually find a way forward to have peace and stability in Syria,…

— John F. Kerry

If we want to defeat Islamic State, we first have to arrive at a cease-fire agreement in Syria. Once that has been achieved, an…

— Martin Schulz

When the air forces of the U.S., Russia, France, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others are already engaged with Isis in Syria, it's a…

— Crispin Blunt

To destroy the Islamic State, you have to fix Syria. You have to look at the reasons that created the Islamic State. This is…

— Jamal Khashoggi

Let me begin by saying that we have to understand who ISIS is. ISIS is a radical Sunni group. They cannot just be defeated…

— Marco Rubio

I think we have to knock out ISIS. Right now Syria is fighting ISIS. We have people who want to fight both at the…

— Donald Trump