Is syria a dictatorship?

However, in terms of actual conduct of government, the Syrian government has dictatorial powers but Syria is in no sense a one-party state. Actually, the US president has as least as much constitutional power as the Syrian president but the American president can be overruled. read more

Syria is a semi-presidential system and a unitary republic. It isnot considered a democracy as the west understands it, nor can itbe termed a true dictatorship. read more

Syria's Alawite community is widely written about in the foreign media as Bashar al-Assad's core support base and is said to dominate the government's security apparatus, yet in April 2016 a BBC report claimed that Alawite leaders released a document seeking to distance themselves from Assad. read more