US EditionUS military launches deadly strike on drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, leaving 3 dead
The strike, part of a campaign since September 2025, killed three people and aims to disrupt drug-smuggling linked to transnational criminal and terrorist groups, officials said.
- On Friday, U.S. Southern Command said U.S. forces struck a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing three individuals as a video shows the boat explode.
- Since early September, the campaign of boat strikes has resulted in at least 38 attacks and a death toll of 130 people, slowing after January, officials said.
- SOUTHCOM, which oversees operations in the region, conducted the operation at the direction of its commander, Gen. Francis L. Donovan, and assessed the vessel was engaged in drug-smuggling, with no U.S. forces harmed.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week some top cartel drug-traffickers have decided to cease narcotics operations indefinitely due to recent kinetic strikes.
- Transparency concerns persist as U.S. Southern Command withheld strike details, and critics say the administration offered little evidence for killing `narcoterrorists` amid the Caribbean region's drug transit role.
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US Announces Lethal Strike on Drug Boat in Caribbean
U.S. Southern Command said Friday that Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal strike on a vessel operated by drug traffickers in the Caribbean, killing three people identified as narco-terrorists. The strike took place Feb. 13 at the direction of Southern Command leader Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the command said in a statement posted on X. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Ca…
The US military says it killed three people in an attack on a boat in the Caribbean on Friday. The people are accused of smuggling drugs.
3 dead in latest US strike on suspected drug vessel in Caribbean
The US military said on Friday it killed three alleged drug traffickers in a strike on a boat in the Caribbean. The attack raises the death toll from the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats to 133 people in at least 38 attacks carried out since early September in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. “Three narcoterrorists were killed during this action. No US military forces were harmed,” US Southern Command said in a st…
Since September, the U.S. Army has repeatedly attacked ships in the Pacific and Caribbean that are allegedly involved in drug trafficking. Now another boat has been fired.
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