UN warns US boat strikes in the Caribbean counter-drug war may violate international law and human rights principles.

Operation Southern Spear has killed at least 231 people in 69 strikes since the Trump administration launched the operation in September 2025.

The U.S. killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, bringing the total death toll in nearly nine months of the ...

U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) on Saturday announced the latest strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat traveling through the Caribbean, killing four. Southcom stated on social media that under ...

U.S. forces with Joint Task Force Southern Spear struck a go-fast vessel on Sunday, the first such attack on an alleged drug ...

That door gunner may [...] know barely anything about what's going on,” one Air Force special operations veteran said. “They know they're going after some kind of drug traffickers, and that's it.” ...

A United Nations human rights expert has concluded that US attacks on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean violate international law and may amount to crimes ...

U.S. military forces struck a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea and “killed three narco-terrorists” on board, said officials on Wednesday. The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), which ...