President Donald Trump declared drug cartels to be “unlawful combatants” and said that the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to an administration report sent to Congress and obtained by The Epoch Times.
The report is a notification mandated by federal law following any incident in which U.S. forces are involved in an attack or hostilities. A White House official told The Epoch Times that the report was sent to Congress following the second U.S. strike on a drug smuggling vessel and “does not convey any new information.”
