US EditionUS military says strikes on 3 boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean kill 8 people
The strikes targeted vessels on known drug routes, killing eight men labeled as narco-terrorists, part of a campaign that has killed at least 95 since September, U.S. Southern Command said.
- Monday's strikes in the eastern Pacific, the military said, reportedly targeted three boats accused of drug smuggling, killing eight people.
- The campaign has built the U.S. military's largest regional presence in decades, targeting smuggling routes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, while ramping up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and seizing a sanctioned oil tanker last week.
- The military said the strikes targeted `designated terrorist organizations` and posted video of a boat exploding but did not provide publicly released evidence of alleged drug trafficking.
- On the eve of briefings, lawmakers on Capitol Hill intensify scrutiny of a campaign that has killed at least 95 people in 25 known strikes since early September.
- President Donald Trump has framed the strikes as part of an `armed conflict` with drug cartels and said land attacks are 'coming soon', while Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro insists the operations aim to oust him.
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According to the U.S. military, three boats of suspected drug smugglers have been attacked again in the eastern Pacific, killing eight people.
Since the beginning of September, the United States has carried out strikes against at least 26 ships in the Caribbean or the eastern Pacific, killing at least 95 people.
The U.S. Army announced that it had struck on Monday, December 15, three new vessels of suspected drug traffickers in the Pacific, killing eight people, a new episode of a campaign whose legality remains contested in Washington and abroad.
The U.S. military once again attacked alleged drug boats in the eastern Pacific on Monday. Eight men were killed during the attacks in international waters according to military information. The boats were used to transport drugs along well-known smuggler routes, the responsible regional command of the U.S. military (Southcom) declared.The data could not be independently checked.In the first attack three men were killed, in the second two and fi…
US forces eliminate three narco-terrorist boats in eastern Pacific
On Dec. 15, US forces carried out lethal strikes on three narco-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific, killing eight terrorists linked to designated terrorist organizations. On Dec. 15, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting alon…
Once again, the US has attacked three boats, which according to the military are said to be involved in drug smuggling. Eight men are said to have been killed in international waters in the East Pacific.
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