OK, let me 'draw' it:
- You wrote, 'Assad AF and the US AF are both flying their own drones in the same air space these days'...
- I asked: 'Syrians flying their UAVs over ar-Raqqa?'
Namely, what can be seen on the photos provided on the link you posted is:
- a) what looks like Predator (and if it is one, it's either US- or Turkish-operated), and
- b) one of two SyAAF Su-24s that flew the strike on Ghariba.
I.e. no 'Assad AF...own drones'.
Furthermore, meanwhile I've checked with few of my contacts 'close' to the SyAAF, and they don't have any kind of UAVs that could reach the area.
On the contrary, in the course of one of relevant e-mail exchanges, one of messages that ended on my PC contained an observation the essence of which was something like (I'm just citing here), '...stupid....[specific representative of the regime in Damascus]... is wasting resources necessary for supporting troops elsewhere for flying "airshow for Americans"...'
EDIT
Meanwhile I've checked with my Iranian sources (the quality of the same can be assessed with help of articles like this one), and it turned they're not flying UAVs over ar-Raqqa either.
So, sorry, but I remain a little bit confused: what kind of UAVs is 'Assad AF' flying there...?
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