{"id":26407,"date":"2026-09-20T00:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=26407"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:59:40","slug":"us-military-says-it-struck-suspected-drug-trafficking-vessel-4-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=26407","title":{"rendered":"US military says it struck suspected drug-trafficking vessel, 4 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134362516,imgsize-25058,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/boat-struck.jpg\" alt=\"US military says it struck suspected drug-trafficking vessel, 4 killed\" title=\"The US military claimed it was targeting 'narco-terrorists'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"The US military claimed it was targeting 'narco-terrorists'\">The US military claimed it was targeting &#8216;narco-terrorists&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The US military said it killed four people in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean on Saturday, alleging that it was involved in drug trafficking.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"1\"\/>\u201cOn September 19, under the direction of Southern Command, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean.<!-- -->,\u201d US Southern Command said in a post on X.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>&#8220;Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel&#8217;s active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists,&#8221; it added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>The strike is part of a campaign launched last year against what the Trump administration describes as \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d. Rights groups have criticised the operations as \u201cextrajudicial killings\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>The latest strike brings the reported death toll from US military attacks on boats in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean to at least 231 people across 69 strikes since the Trump administration began targeting groups it labels \u201cnarcoterrorists\u201d nearly a year ago.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The Trump administration has also sought to expand the campaign on land through cooperation with governments in Latin America. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras had agreed to joint US operations against criminal groups, though Guatemala later denied reaching such an agreement. Ecuador has conducted similar operations with US support since March.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Trump has described the US as being in an \u201carmed conflict\u201d with Latin American cartels and defended the strikes as necessary to curb drug trafficking into the United States and the resulting overdose deaths. The administration, however, has faced criticism over the limited evidence it has publicly provided to substantiate its claims about those killed in the operations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/weather\/us\/us-military-says-it-struck-suspected-drug-trafficking-vessel-4-killed\/articleshow\/134362508.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military claimed it was targeting &#8216;narco-terrorists&#8217; The US military said it killed four people in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean on Saturday, alleging that it was involved in drug trafficking.\u201cOn September 19, under the direction of Southern Command, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/boat-struck.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The US military claimed it was targeting &#8216;narco-terrorists&#8217; 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