Pete Hegseth speaks as Donald Trump looks on at the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on 22 December. lex Brandon/APPete Hegseth speaks as Donald Trump looks on at the president’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on 22 December. lex Brandon/APUS military says two were killed in strike on suspected drug vessel in PacificTwo men killed in Hegseth-led attack on boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters, Pentagon saysThe US military announced the killing of another two men in “a lethal kinetic strike”on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday. The Pentagon released video of the strike, which brings the total number of known naval attacks on suspected drug smugglers to 30 since September, and raises the death toll to at least 107 people, according to US military figures. The attack was carried out “at the direction of” Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, US Southern Command said in a post on X, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform where images of the attacks have been posted. US struck ‘big facility’ in Venezuela, Trump claimed without offering detailsRead more“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the military said.
