Pentagon Chief Confirms US Military Strike on Another Drug-Smuggling Vessel, Killing 3

The U.S. military struck a drug-smuggling vessel on Oct. 17 and killed three occupants, War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed in a post on Sunday, saying that the boat was connected to a guerrilla group based in Colombia. “The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics,” he wrote in a post on X. A video of the strike was included in the post. He added that that “three male narco-terrorists” were on board the vessel during the airstrike, which was carried out in international waters. All three individuals on the vessel were killed, while no American forces were harmed, the secretary said....