The Pentagon said a drone strike killed scores of al-Qaida militants on March 16, 2017, but residents of Jinah, a village in Syria’s Aleppo province, described the strike as an assault on a mosque crowded with civilians.
Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a mosque following an airstrike by U.S. forces in the village of Jinah, in Aleppo province, on March 17, 2017.
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Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a mosque following an airstrike by U.S. forces in the village of Jinah, in Aleppo province, on March 17, 2017.
(Omar Haj Kadour / AFP/Getty Images)
Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, attempt to rescue a person as they dig through the rubble of a mosque following an airstrike by U.S. forces in the village of Jinah, in Aleppo province, on March 17, 2017.
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Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a mosque following an airstrike by U.S. forces in the village of Jinah, in Aleppo province, on March 17, 2017.
(Omar Haj Kadour / AFP/Getty Images)
Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, dig through the rubble of a mosque following an airstrike by U.S. forces in the village of Jinah, in Aleppo province, on March 17, 2017.
(Omar Haj Kadour / AFP/Getty Images)