US Sinks Suspected Cartel Boat Off Venezuela as Trump Signals Ongoing Military Campaign

U.S. says it blew up a Venezuelan gang’s drug vessel, killing 11. What’s next? Editorial Board Roundtable

The White House on Tuesday said U.S. military forces struck a drug vessel originating from Venezuela and operating in international waters in the Caribbean that it said was operated by the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang, killing 11. The U.S. military confirmed a “precision strike against a drug vessel operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio later revealed that President Donald Trump had personally o…

Dramatic footage shows U.S. strike that obliterated ‘drug-carrying boat’ off Venezuela, killing 11 Tren de Aragua ‘narcoterrorists’ – CLG News

Dramatic footage shows U.S. strike that obliterated ‘drug-carrying boat’ off Venezuela, killing 11 Tren de Aragua ‘narcoterrorists’ | 2 Sept 2025 | President Trump shared dramatic footage of the U.S. military obliterating a boat carrying drugs and Tren de Aragua gangbangers off the coast of Venezuela on Tuesday. The video showed the small boat being blown out of international waters and exploding into flames after it was struck by a single missi…

Trump Administration’s Deadly Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fear of Wider War

The US is escalating the “war on drugs” and folding it into the “war on terror,” says historian Greg Grandin.

Trump blows up boat killing 11 people in mysterious Caribbean strike - but offers no proof they were actually drug dealers

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. military conducted a deadly strike against a boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people he claimed were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The president said the vessel was carrying drugs from Venezuela to the United States. The strike happened in international waters in the southern Caribbean, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as per The Post. Trump shared a blurry …

Hegseth delivers blistering response on blasting 'nacro-terrorists' to bottom of the ocean · American Wire News

President Donald J. Trump once said that the left would refuse to give him credit if he cured cancer, so wiping out a boatload of “narco-terrorists” is not about to earn their praise. Nonetheless, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unapologetic about striking a boat carrying 11 suspected Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, insisting the U.S. military had “absolute and complete” authority to attack the vessel in the southern Caribbean Sea, cit…

U.S. Forces destroy small ‘Venezuelan’ boat allegedly carrying drugs—11 killed

President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that U.S. troops deployed to the Caribbean attacked and destroyed a “drug ship” that had left Venezuela.