Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. Following the engagement, US SOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor, the military said. Last week, the US claimed responsibility for killing two people in an earlier attack in the eastern Pacific, bringing to three the number of attacks Washington has ordered on vessels since its forces abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro during a bloody nighttime raid on the capital, Caracas, in early January.
The US military on Thursday said it killed two people in a strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal drugs in the eastern Pacific. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations," the US Southern Command posted on X. It added that "no US military forces were harmed" in the operation. The statement did not offer any evidence that the boat pictured was actually carrying narcotics before it was blown up in the attack.
The US fired Tomahawk missiles into Nigeria's Sokoto State late last week, claiming to target members of ISIS targeting Christians in the country, but the region hit by the strikes - and facing the brunt of ISIS attacks - is majority Muslim. Also, the world's first carbon tariff is set to take effect in Europe at the start of 2026.
Trump said the strike was directed at "ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not see for many years, and even Centuries!" "I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was," he said, adding that U.S. forces had "executed numerous perfect strikes."
The journalist who initially revealed that President Donald Trump's administration killed shipwrecked survivors of its first known boat bombing reported Tuesday that the admiral in charge consulted with a US military lawyer before ordering another strike on the two alleged drug traffickers who were clinging to debris in the Caribbean Sea. Just days after Trump announced the September 2 bombing on social media, Intercept journalist Nick Turse exposed the follow-up strike that killed survivors, citing US officials.
When they [the survivors] were finally taken out, they weren't trying to flip the boat over. The boat was clearly incapacitated. A tiny portion of it remained, capsized, the bow of the boat. They had no communications device. Certainly, they were unarmed,
Donald Trump said the US has struck another small boat that he accuses of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing six people. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed, Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social social media platform. The United Nations has condemned the US strikes on small boats it believes to be trafficking drugs as extrajudicial executions.
Speaking at a news conference afterwards with Ecuador's foreign minister, Rubio described the designations as part of a war US President Donald Trump has begun to wage against Latin American cartels. Frankly, it's a war. It's a war on killers. It's a war on terror, Rubio said. The targets of the new US terrorism designations were two Ecuador-based gangs, Los Lobos and Los Choneros, both of which have been involved in the illicit drug trade.
President Donald Trump has announced that the United States military conducted a kinetic strike on a small boat he accused of smuggling drugs out of Venezuela for the Tren de Aragua gang. In a Tuesday post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump shared black-and-white aerial footage of the bombing, which reportedly killed 11 people. list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3list 2 of 3list 3 of 3end of list The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action.
