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The U.S. designated drug cartels as terrorist groups and conducted four military strikes killing 21 cartel members in Caribbean international waters.
- On Oct. 3, President Donald Trump told Congress the U.S. is in an `armed conflict` with drug cartels shortly after ordering four strikes, and the administration classified cartel members as `unlawful combatants`.
- The administration says cartels qualify as nonstate armed groups whose actions constitute an armed attack against the United States, justifying last month’s strikes under the law of armed conflict.
- The strikes, officials say, destroyed vessels and illicit narcotics, with U.S. officials reporting 21 deaths from the four boat strikes; Trump wrote, `The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States`.
- Congress has not authorized military force, and lawmakers were briefed Wednesday by Pentagon general counsel Earl Matthews and Department of War representatives as Colombian President Gustavo Petro called for a criminal investigation amid legal objections.
- The White House defended the strikes as `in line with the law of armed conflict` and Vance called them the `highest and best use of our military`; the administration designated Mexican cartels, Tren de Aragua, and MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations.
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