US warplanes have killed at least 42 Syrian civilians in a mosque during an air raid overnight in a village west of Aleppo. Over 100 other people were wounded in the air raid on the village of al-Jineh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed on Friday. US military officials confirmed that it carried out a deadly airstrike in northern Syria, but have denied deliberately bombing the mosque. Presstv.com reports: The observatory said many people were still trapped under the collapsed mosque as rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from rubble, and dozens of residents were still unaccounted for. Jineh is in the western Aleppo countryside, which along with Idlib is home to hundreds of thousands of Syrians displaced by fighting in other areas. Abu Muhammed, a village resident, told AFP he heard powerful explosions when the mosque was hit. “It was right after the prayer at a time where there are usually religious lessons for men in it,” he said. “I saw 15 bodies and lots of body parts in the debris when I arrived. We couldn’t even recognize some of the bodies,” he added. The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be Daesh terrorists inside [...]