Hegseth Says US Strikes Another Drug-Smuggling Boat, Killing 3 Onboard

The Pentagon chief said that U.S. strikes on drug smuggling vessels will continue ‘until their ... poisoning of the American people stops.’

A still from footage of a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean on Nov. 6, 2025. @SecWar/X

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military carried out another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in the Caribbean that was transporting illegal drugs to the United States on Nov. 6.

Hegseth stated on social media that the strike targeted a vessel run by a “designated terrorist organization,” killing three people on board whom he described as “narco-terrorists.”