AL JINEH: The US said Friday it carried out an air strike in Syria against an Al-Qaeda meeting but denied hitting a mosque where a monitor said 49 people were killed. In Washington, the Pentagon insisted a mosque was not hit but rather a nearby building containing “dozens” of Al-Qaeda members, “several” of whom were killed. He showed a black-and-white image of what appeared to be an old mosque with a flattened building a short distance away. Some bodies ‘unrecognizable’Saleh Saeed al-Sheikh, whose brother Mustafa was killed in the air strike, said there was a Koranic school inside the mosque. More than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government protests six years ago.

Source: Manila Times March 17, 2017 22:07 UTC