President Donald Trump suggested Thursday night that the U.S. could “very soon” begin targeting alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on land, expanding operations that have so far focused on the ...

Hegseth said the strikes were intended to be "lethal, kinetic strikes." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to a report that he ordered the military to kill all passengers aboard a boat suspected ...

WASHINGTON — The senior military lawyer for the combatant command overseeing lethal strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela disagreed with the Trump administration’s position that the ...

In September, WSJ explained how the heightened rhetoric and military moves by the Trump administration and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro could escalate. Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images; Francis ...

The Pentagon on Saturday conducted the 21st known strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat, US Southern Command announced Sunday. “Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit ...

The United States has carried out at least 21 strikes on boats the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs, killing at least 83 people. By Anushka Patil The U.S. military on Saturday killed ...

At a Justice Department conference in February, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove told the department's top drug prosecutors that the Trump administration wasn't interested in interdicting ...