Pentagon Says 4 Killed in New Drug Boat Strike

The boat was ’transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific,' according to U.S. Southern Command.
Pentagon Says 4 Killed in New Drug Boat Strike
A still from footage of a boat strike targeting drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific on Dec. 4, 2025. @Southcom/X
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The Pentagon announced that it had conducted a lethal strike on Dec. 4 on a drug trafficking boat in the Eastern Pacific.

The U.S. Southern Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Caribbean and near Latin America, wrote in a Thursday social media post that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth directed Joint Task Force Southern Spear to conduct a “lethal kinetic strike” on a boat in international waters being operated by suspected narco-terrorists.
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