A post-strike photo of the site which the Pentagon says is of an al Qaeda senior leader meeting in al-Jinah, Syria, that U.S. stuck on March 16 is shown in this image released by Pentagon in Washington, DC, U.S. on March 17, 2017. Courtesy U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Friday denied accusations by a Syrian rebel group that the United States had targeted a mosque in Syria and, in a rare move, showed an aerial image to illustrate the mosque was intact and the building destroyed was in fact across the street.
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis, addressing a Pentagon news conference, said he believed dozens of al Qaeda fighters were killed in the Thursday strike by manned and unmanned U.S. aircraft on an al Qaeda meeting place in the village of al-Jina, Aleppo.
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