President Donald Trump has ordered the military to attack vessels he claims smuggle drugs in the region

Six people have been killed in a US strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, in what War Secretary Pete Hegseth has described as an anti-drug smuggling operation.

The attack marks the latest in a series of American military actions across the Caribbean and Pacific in what President Donald Trump calls a campaign to eliminate narcotics trafficking from Venezuela and Colombia. Both nations have strongly rejected the claims.

The Department of War carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” on a Tren de Aragua (TdA) vessel in neutral waters overnight on…

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