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U.S. forces carried out a lethal strike Saturday on a narcotics vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization in the Eastern Pacific, killing three suspected narco-terrorists in international waters, according to U.S. Southern Command. The strike brings the total number of suspected narco-terrorists killed to 82, with three survivors, in an ongoing U.S. campaign targeting drug-smuggling vessels tied to designated terrorist groups. In a post on X, U.S. Southern Command said intelligence confirmed the vessel hit in Thursday’s strike was smuggling narcotics along a known trafficking route. The command described the strike as a "lethal kinetic operation" conducted in international...

US Department of DefenseOne person survived the strikes and was rescued by Mexican search-and-rescue teams. US forces have killed 14 people in strikes on four alleged drug boats in the Pacific, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said.Mexico's navy says it is still searching for a lone survivor approximately 400 miles (643km) from the Pacific coastal city of Acapulco. It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.The latest strikes in the eastern Pacific, which Hegseth said happened on Monday at the direction of President Donald Trump,...

Tren De Aragua drug boat blown to pieces by US Military forces The United States has reportedly executed its eighth strike against a drug trafficking vessel in the Pacific Ocean, West of South America. Since September, the Trump Administration has launched seven additional attacks on drug boats affiliated with Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua narcotrafficking gang, but unlike the latest strike, these were in the Carribean Sea, East of Central America. Tuesday’s attack comes after the White House announced that a drug-carrying submarine was destroyed in the Caribbean. It also comes as the United States ramps up its offensive against the...