The U.S. military says it’s carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the first since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.

The aircraft used in the US military’s first strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, a strike which has drawn intense scrutiny and resulted in numerous Congressional briefings, was painted as a civilian aircraft and was part of a closely guarded classified program,

The Trump administration has been hounded with allegations that its ongoing strike campaign against alleged drug boats have violated the laws of war

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WASHINGTON (TNND) — The U.S. military reportedly used a plane disguised as a civilian aircraft to carry out one of the first deadly strikes on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military said Wednesday it struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days, killing a total of eight people while others jumped overboard and may have survived. U.S. Southern Command, which oversees South America, did not ...

The US military reported on Wednesday that eight people were killed in several new strikes targeting suspected drug-smuggling boats, raising the total number of deaths in Washington's campaign against alleged narcotics traffickers to at least 115.