Overview
- - Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the operation hit a boat in international waters run by a designated terrorist organization and carrying narcotics, with no U.S. casualties reported.
- - The attack is at least the 15th known strike since early September across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, with media tallies placing deaths at more than 60.
- - The Pentagon posted a video of the strike with blurred imagery, and it has not released public evidence tying targeted boats to drug shipments.
- - U.N. human-rights chief Volker Türk warned the operations could violate international law and urged the United States to halt actions that risk extrajudicial killings.
- - Lawmakers have pressed for details after sparse briefings, as U.S. forces expand regional activity, including Marine training in Puerto Rico and deployments such as the USS Gerald R. Ford.