Photo Gallery 'We All Make Mistakes'
A Free Syrian Army fighter takes cover during clashes in August with the Assad's Syrian Army in Aleppo. "You cannot go to the extreme and make things absolute -- they did everything and we did nothing, 100 percent and zero percent," Assad told SPIEGEL. "Reality isn't black and white like this. It has shades of gray."
Female fighters who are a part of the Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights), stand with their weapons as they receive military training in Aleppo in February. In the interview, Assad claims that a "majority" of the opposition is affiliated with al-Qaida. "The minority is comprised of deserters or outlaws," he says.
United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland in June. The only thing Obama "has is lies," Assad told SPIEGEL.
