The U.S. military says it has conducted 26 strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific or Caribbean since early September, killing at least 99 people.

U.S. Southern Command said intelligence confirmed the vessel was engaged in narcotrafficking operations and on a known trafficking route in the eastern Pacific.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on boat strikes being carried out against alleged drug cartels in the Caribbean amid growing controversy over one such operation in September that came

Senior Democratic lawmakers briefed on a U.S. strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean said on Thursday they were troubled by a video showing survivors in distress being killed, though Republican lawmakers there defended the strike as legal.

The United States military said it conducted another strike on a suspected drug boat in the Eastern Pacific on Dec. 4, killing four men on board. "Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco ...

The House on Wednesday shot down a pair of Democratic-led resolutions designed to curtail President Trump’s strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the administration’s “hostilities

The U.S. military continued its assault on what it claims are drug-running boats off the coastal waters of Latin America with another strike Thursday that the Pentagon said killed four people. The strike in the Eastern Pacific was ordered by Defense ...

US President Donald Trump is defending the U.S. military’s controversial second missile strike on a capsized boat in the Caribbean, claiming surviving suspects were trying to right the vessel “loaded up with drugs.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was defiant in the face of criticism over his handling of strikes on alleged drug boats—including accusations, strongly denied, of war crimes—after the U.S. military announced its 22nd such strike on Thursday. Andrew ...