President Assad has said that if any Syrian individual has been party to this crime or implicated in the assassination of Hariri, then he has committed a treasonous crime.

sinister campaign against Syria.

we will leave immediately. We will not blink an eye.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

No other incident has caused [such] terrible damage to Syria in the past 30 years.

Syria has the political will and desire to constructively engage with the United States and to improve relations with the United States.