US Military Strikes Drug Boat in Eastern Pacific, Killing 2

The U.S. military said on Feb. 5 that it killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific, the latest in a series of actions under an ongoing campaign to disrupt organized criminal networks the Trump administration has branded as “narco-terrorists.”

The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said in a statement on X that intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narcotics-trafficking routes and “was engaged in narco-trafficking operations” when it was hit with a “lethal kinetic strike.”