Overview
- Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said U.S. forces hit a vessel in international Caribbean waters on Nov. 6–7, killing three men with no U.S. casualties reported.
- Officials say roughly 70 people have been killed across a series of maritime strikes since September targeting suspected narcotrafficking boats.
- The U.N. backed a human-rights assessment that the strikes violate international law and urged the United States to halt actions that risk extrajudicial killings.
- Hegseth posted a strike video on X, which Reuters said it could not independently verify, and officials have not publicly identified the dead or the alleged narcotics.
- Congress remains divided over limits on Pentagon actions related to Venezuela, with recent reports offering conflicting accounts of a narrow Senate vote.