"Not only ISIS and Al-Nusra, every affiliated to Al-Qaeda organization within Syria, all of them are terrorists...we want to get rid of terrorists we want to defeat those terrorists while United States wants to manage those groups, in order to topple the government in Syria...Of course, ISIS has been set up in Iraq in 2006 while United States was in Iraq, not Syria in Iraq, so it was growing under supervision of the American authority in Iraq and they didn't do anything to fight ISIS in Iraq at that time...It's been expanding under supervision of American airplanes and they could have seen the ISIS using the oil field and exporting oil to Turkey and they didn't try to attack any convoy of ISIS, how could they be against ISIS?...How the Russian could have seen this since the first day and started to attack those convoys. Actually, Russian intervention unmasked the American intention regarding ISIS and the other terrorist groups, of course."
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Bashar al-Assad, Interview with Bill Neely (July 2016) on "NBC: Exclusive Interview with Bashar al-Assad"
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