Overview
- The Pentagon says a Saturday strike in international waters destroyed a boat and killed its three male occupants, with no U.S. casualties reported.
- Officials report at least 65 people killed since the air campaign began in September, following a series of strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.
- UN human-rights chief Volker Türk condemned the killings as potential extrajudicial executions and called for rapid, independent, transparent investigations.
- U.S. media report the White House is considering strikes on Venezuelan military sites accused of aiding drug trafficking, while President Trump says he is not planning strikes on Venezuela and has acknowledged authorizing clandestine CIA operations there.
- The United States has deployed eight warships and F‑35s in the region with a carrier en route, as tensions rise with Venezuela and with Colombia, where President Gustavo Petro faces new U.S. sanctions.