US strike on an alleged drug boat kills 3 in the eastern Pacific Ocean
The White House said the follow-up strike was done in self-defense after the boat was destroyed, while critics said the military offered little evidence.
- On Thursday, the U.S. military attacked a boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing three people suspected of smuggling drugs, marking the 65th known operation by Joint Task Force Southern Spear.
- President Donald Trump justifies these strikes as necessary escalation in an "armed conflict" with cartels; the administration has targeted vessels since September, alleging they operate designated terrorist organizations.
- Critics, including the United Nations, argue the strikes constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings, as the administration provides little evidence of drug-trafficking involvement; the death toll now reaches at least 211 people.
- Senators demanded the Pentagon release "unedited video" of strikes, as the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced a defense bill requiring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to submit unredacted investigations.
- Prof Ben Saul, the U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, condemned the killing on Thursday, calling on States to "break their silence and jointly denounce these murders" since September 2025.
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US strike on alleged drug smuggling boat kills 3 in eastern Pacific Ocean
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military on Thursday killed three people in an attack on a boat it accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, as the Trump administration wages a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.
Three dead after U.S. military launches strike on alleged drug boat
(NBC, KYMA) - The U.S. military has killed three more suspected drug smugglers in the Eastern Pacific. The U.S. Southern Command posted video showing the lethal strike on a fast moving boat suspected of transporting illegal drugs Thursday. According to an NBC News tracker, this was the 65th strike on what the Trump Administration calls "narcoterrorists" since September 2, 2025. In those strikes, 211 people have now died. As with most of the mili…
U.S. strike on alleged drug boat kills three in eastern Pacific Ocean
The latest attack brings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 211 since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in early September
UN Expert Calls for Global Condemnation After 3 More Killed in Trump Boat Strike
As US senators pushed the Department of Defense to release unedited footage of the boat bombings the Trump administration has carried out in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September, US Southern Command on Thursday announced that it had killed three more people in the operation that some international law experts have said amounts to mass murder and an extrajudicial killing spree. Source
Navy Takes Out Another Drug Boat
The U.S. military struck and destroyed a vessel suspected of drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three people aboard, the latest action in the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign against what it calls narco-terrorism in Latin America. U.S. Southern Command confirmed the strike, saying forces targeted the alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. The command did not release the location or identify …
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