re: U.S. Fighter Jet Shoots Down Syrian Government Plane

There's a nice map in the Business Insider article, " US-led coalition aircraft shoots down Syrian fighter jet near Raqqa"



Iran apparently bombed ISIS at Deir ez-Zur, also today.

The al Tanf bombing was from June 6.

And this is Syrian Kurdistan:



Some places cite the SDF as being 60% Arab, but it's usually also cited as a Kurdish-dominated force, with the U.S.-backed Kurds taking the lead role in the liberation of Raqqa.

This article was from two days ago: " Spirits high among Kurds in Syria as coalition battles for Raqqa."


The big take-away here, once again, is that the pro-Assad forces would rather bomb the Syrian rebels than ISIS.