On the path to become a mature, pluralistic democracy; tolerating religions and minorities

Establishing a new autocratic regime, similar to the one of Bashar al-Assad

Establishing a "soft" autocratic regime, UAE style

Becoming a strict religous dictatorship, hostile all non-Muslim countries

Suffering from a civil war with the rebel factions fighting over the country

Invaded by a superpower willing to "keep peace", Syria has a puppet government

Recovering from a civil war ended by a UN Peacekeepers intervention, likely to split

Syria does not exist any more, it split into several new countries