US Airstrike on Drug Boat Kills 4 in Eastern Pacific

The United States conducted another airstrike on a drug boat in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, killing four, according to the U.S. Southern Command.
The attack was ordered by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and joins a growing list of at least two dozen other strikes against drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Pacific.
In the latest strike, U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X, which was accompanied by a video of the explosion, that it confirmed the boat was engaged in drug-trafficking operations and navigating along known trafficking routes.
Four men, identified as “narco-terrorists,” were killed, and no U.S. military forces were harmed, according to the X post….