Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the move in a social media post claiming his department had carried out what he called a “lethal kinetic strike” on the vessel, which he claimed had been operated by members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean has been released by prosecutors in Ecuador

The U.S. military carried out a new strike against a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean, and in what is believed to be the first such case, there were survivors among the crew, a U.S. official told Reuters.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier is deployed to the region in an escalating military conflict against drug traffickers

The pace of the strikes has quickened in recent days from one every few weeks in September when they first began to three this week.