●Hamad bin Jassim: Syria was "prey we fought over, and it got away"

In an interview with Qatari television in October 2017, the former Qatari prime minister and foreign minister Hamad bin Jassim said Qatar had taken on the file of supporting the Syrian opposition on the Emir's instructions and with the blessing of the Saudi King Abdullah, that "everything that went, went through Turkey and in coordination with the American forces", that some relationship with the Nusra Front "may" have existed, and denied supporting ISIS. He concluded that Syria was "prey we fought over, and it got away" while the parties quarrelled over it.