"We need to focus on destroying ISIL, but we shouldn't be the ones declaring that [Bashir] Assad must go."

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Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.

— John F. Kerry