A very good interview on RT, not one of my favorite sites, but a great interview of a, in my estimation, wise and good man.
Assad is the only leader in the Middle East who protects Christians. My own patriarch, the Patriarch of Antioch, lives in Damascus on the Street called Strait in the house of one Ananias who once laid hands on Saul of Tarsus to heal him of the blindness he picked up on the road there from Jerusalem.