US Strikes Drug-Running Vessel in Caribbean, Kills at Least Two

The United States carried out a strike on a semisubmersible vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday that U.S. officials say was being used to traffic narcotics, killing at least two people and leaving two survivors who were later transferred to their home countries, President Donald Trump and U.S. defense officials said. The operation is the latest in a series of U.S. military attacks on suspected drug-smuggling vessels in waters near Venezuela and Colombia since early September and has intensified diplomatic and legal disputes across the region.

President Trump posted unclassified video of the strike on his social media account and wrote, "It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUGCARRYING SUBMARINE," saying U.S. intelligence had assessed the vessel was loaded with fentanyl and other narcotics. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also released footage and described other recent strikes as targeting vessels linked to narcoterrorist networks. U.S. officials said helicopters rescued two people who survived Thursday's attack; the administration later arranged their repatriation to Colombia and Ecuador for detention and potential prosecution. Ecuadorian prosecutors subsequently...