The U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats have killed over 200 people. The attacks began in September and aim to stem ...

The U.S. military on May 30 struck another boat it said was engaged in "narco-trafficking operations" in the eastern Pacific ...

The U.S. is preparing to take on Iran’s fast-attack boats using a playbook it already has tested in another theater — lethal strikes on small vessels tied to drug trafficking networks in the ...

There were over 68,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths from January 2024 to December 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If Trump’s statement were accurate, five boat strikes ...

The U.S. first started targeting suspected drug vessels back in September with a controversial "double tap" strike.

All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A five-month investigation has ...

The Pentagon’s inspector general opened an evaluation last week into how U.S. Southern Command selects the boats it destroys. The watchdog wants to know whether the targeting followed the Joint ...

Around 200 people have now been killed in the attacks since last year, in an operation critics say has failed to slow the smuggling of cocaine.

Most congressional Republicans view the boat strike campaign as part of a calculated strategy to put pressure on Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro, as Trump, who has warned that the ...

The U.S. has quietly accelerated a lethal campaign targeting boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, a months-long operation shrouded in secrecy that has killed nearly 200 people, with no end in sight.