US EditionU.S. strike on alleged drug boat kills 4 in the Caribbean Sea, military says
The strike is part of a seven-month campaign targeting narcoterrorists, resulting in at least 163 deaths, aiming to reduce drug flow to the U.S., officials said.
- On Wednesday, United States forces conducted a lethal strike in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people, with Southern Command describing the operation as "applying total systemic friction on the cartels."
- The strike marks the latest operation in "Operation Southern Spear," a campaign targeting alleged drug traffickers that has killed at least 163 people since September; President Donald Trump justified the tactics by asserting The United States is in "armed conflict" with cartels.
- Families of victims from Colombia, Trinidad, and Tobago have filed wrongful death lawsuits in Massachusetts, alleging those killed were fishermen and workers, not terrorists, though the administration has yet to identify the victims publicly.
- United Nations special rapporteur Ben Saul criticized the campaign as a "phony war" on so-called narcoterrorism that "flagrantly violates human rights," while the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights began holding hearings to address the campaign's implications.
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The United States has carried out another attack on a vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people, the US Armed Forces Southern Command, which oversees combat operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said on the X network on Wednesday.
The United States has carried out another attack on a vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people, the US Armed Forces Southern Command, which oversees combat operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said on the X network on Wednesday.
“Intelligence information confirmed that the vessel was transiting well-known drug trafficking routes” and that it was involved in illegal operations, according to the U.S. Southern Command.
The United States has carried out another attack on a vessel in the Caribbean, killing four people, the US Armed Forces Southern Command, which oversees combat operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, said on the X network on Wednesday.
Death Toll in US Boat Strikes Hits 163
The US military said it carried out a strike Wednesday on a boat it accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing four people, as the Trump administration pushes forward with a monthslong campaign in Latin America while waging a war against Iran. The attack brings the number of...
According to the U.S. Army, four people were killed in a new attack on a suspected drug smuggling boat.
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