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Dec 4, 2025 - Expert backgrounder on how War Powers Resolution works in application to U.S. military operations against suspected drug cartels.

It’s the 39th known strike in a pattern of what legal experts have called illegal killings.

A former Argentinian prosecutor for the International Criminal Court told the BBC on Thursday that recent US airstrikes on suspected boats smuggling drugs in...

Human Rights Watch today published a detailed question-and-answer document analyzing the Trump administration’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.

Dec 8, 2025 - Shortly after the Trump administration carried out its first known attack on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean in early September, Defense Secretary Pete...

Dec 12, 2025 - Standing up to Donald Trump carries some short-term risks, but the long-term risks of not doing so are greater.

'SNL' took aim at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Venezuela boat strikes with a brutal cold open starring Colin Jost: 'Operation Kill...

Dec 18, 2025 - Stephen Miller has played a central role in shaping a U.S. military campaign that has carried out lethal strikes against suspected drug smugglers in the...

Timothy Snyder warns that the US president has concocted a dangerous geopolitical fantasy that could lead to war.

Nov 10, 2025 - Families fear speaking out, governments in the region have said little publicly, and the Trump administration has not disclosed the names of the dead.

End of government shutdown  President Trump signed the Senate-passed funding package into law ending the longest U.S government shutdown in history. Announced...

Dec 19, 2025 - The former leaders of Colombia and Mexico are concerned over recent U.S. actions

Dec 19, 2025 - President Donald Trump nominated Marine Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan, who has special operations experience, to lead U.S. Southern Command.

Nov 19, 2025 - The U.S. war on drugs has always entailed a degree of pressure. The Trump administration's strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats charts a new...

Dec 5, 2025 - U.S. boat strikes and war crimes questions

Marco Rubio pushed back on reporting that Britain has stopped sharing intelligence on drug-trafficking vessels over concerns about U.S. military strikes in the...

Jan 16, 2026 - Inside one Colombian family's fight for justice after the US boat strikes

Watch Hegseth says he’s ‘proud’ of boat strikes near Venezuela but won’t release full video Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

Feb 20, 2026 - U.S. military strikes on drug smuggling boats have killed 131 people since September, yet media coverage has faded. These extrajudicial killings violate...

Watch Trump doubles down on threats of land strikes in Venezuela after U.S. immobilizes alleged drug boat Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

Nov 26, 2025 - The campaign against alleged drug boats in Latin America over the past two months has sparked debate among legal experts and lawmakers.

A bombshell report reveals how the Trump administration conducted that double-strike boat bombing.

Donald Trump said Pete Hegseth is doing “exactly” the right thing in the Caribbean.

Dec 8, 2025 - Here’s what lawmakers who’ve seen the footage have said it shows.

Dec 5, 2025 - Former Philippine President Duterte awaits trial in the ICC for using the pretext of a drug war for his murder campaign.

Dec 4, 2025 - War crimes allegations are engulfing the Pentagon after a deadly strike in the Caribbean.

Members of Congress are wrong to call the strikes war crimes in the absence of an armed conflict, but the strikes are serious crimes under international law.

Dec 7, 2025 - Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) offered a defense of U.S. military strikes on drug vessels on Sunday, arguing that cartel boats are valid targets for destruction

Dec 9, 2025 - It’s only natural that Tom Cotton would go on Meet the Press to toe the party line on extrajudicial killings.

Feb 17, 2026 - The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.

Nov 5, 2025 - Trump’s aggression in Latin America has given a powerful boost to Beijing in the Pacific.

Jan 2, 2026 - Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., discusses boat strikes in Venezuela, the president's social media posts about Iran and the latest on the Epstein files.

Since September, the Trump administration has murdered nearly 90 people in international waters, ordering over 20 lethal strikes on civilian boats near...

President Donald Trump continues to back Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s strategy of targeting suspected narco-terrorists at sea, a campaign that has now...

Senator Rand Paul is done with the defense secretary’s twisted explanations of that second strike on an alleged drug boat.

The Trump administration is facing mounting pressure over deadly strikes against suspected drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific....

Dec 7, 2025 - In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) condemns the strikes on alleged drug boats and calls on the Trump administration to...

Dec 17, 2025 - The votes follow a monthslong military campaign against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

Dec 18, 2025 - The Trump administration must release its legal justification and all other materials related to its illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats at sea.

Dec 8, 2025 - Top lawmakers who were briefed last week on the September “double-tap” strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean say they would support the release...