{"id":331652,"date":"2026-04-27T04:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/us-military-conducts-strike-on-another-boat-carrying-alleged-narco-traffickers-killing-3.html"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:54:14","slug":"us-military-conducts-strike-on-another-boat-carrying-alleged-narco-traffickers-killing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/us-military-conducts-strike-on-another-boat-carrying-alleged-narco-traffickers-killing-3.html","title":{"rendered":"US military conducts strike on another boat carrying alleged narco-traffickers, killing 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/049c6566_image.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Flash top headlines for April 26\" width=\"896\" height=\"500\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\" \/> <span class=\"overlay\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\">Video<\/span><\/a> <!--&gt; \n\n<h4 class=\"title\" data-v-324c3b57=\"\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Fox News Flash top headlines for April 26<\/a><\/h4>\n\n \n\n<p data-v-324c3b57=\"\">Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on FoxNews.com.<\/p>\n\n \n\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><u>The Pentagon<\/u><\/a> on Sunday announced that a lethal strike was conducted on another vessel allegedly carrying suspected narco-traffickers in the Eastern Pacific, killing three people on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"speakable\">The U.S. Southern Command said it conducted a \"lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations\" at the direction of the leader of the Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan of the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,\" the Southern Command claimed in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>US MILITARY KILLS TWO SUSPECTED NARCO-TERRORISTS IN STRIKE ON DRUG-TRAFFICKING VESSEL IN THE PACIFIC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three men on the vessel were killed, but no U.S. forces were harmed in the attack on the ship, according to the Southern Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the 55th strike since the U.S. began targeting boats in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific in early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest strike brings the death toll in the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><u>Trump administration's<\/u><\/a> attacks on ships carrying people it accuses of drug smuggling to at least 186.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>US CONDUCTS STRIKE ON ANOTHER BOAT CARRYING SUSPECTED NARCO-TRAFFICKERS, KILLING 6 PEOPLE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/e88f25df_us-military-strike-drug-boat-killing-3-people-trump-hegseth-pentagon.png\" alt=\"A suspected narco-trafficking boat was attacked by the Pentagon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/> \n\n<p><span>The U.S. Southern Command said it conducted a \"lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations.\"<\/span> <span>(U.S. Southern Command)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pentagon has refused to release the identities of those killed in the strikes since last fall or provide evidence of drugs on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth argued, \"Going on offense with Operation Southern Spear has restored deterrence against the narco-terrorist cartels that profited from poisoning Americans.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The administration has been scrutinized in recent months over the strikes by Democrats and even some Republicans, including Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><u>raised concerns<\/u><\/a> about killing people without due process and the possibility of killing innocent people.<\/p>\n\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofnews.b-cdn.net\/timesofnewscdn\/usa\/c72dc108_us-military-strike-drug-boat-killing-3-people.png\" alt=\"The military killed more suspected narco-terrorists\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/> \n\n<p><span>The Pentagon has refused to release the identities of those killed in the strikes since last fall or provide evidence of drugs on board.<\/span> <span>(U.S. Southern Command)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"I look at my colleagues who say they\u2019re pro-life, and they value God's inspiration in life, but they don't give a s\u2011\u2011- about these people in the boats,\" Paul said in January. \"Are they terrible people in the boats? I don't know. They're probably poor people in Venezuela and Colombia.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senator previously cited Coast Guard statistics that show a significant percentage of boats boarded on suspicion of drug trafficking are innocent.<\/p>\n\n --> <!--&gt; --><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-military-conducts-strike-another-boat-carrying-alleged-narco-traffickers-killing-3<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Article source: https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-military-conducts-strike-another-boat-carrying-alleged-narco-traffickers-killing-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-331652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}