US military kills three in strike on drug-trafficking vessel in Caribbean, Hegseth says

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday that the US military conducted a lethal strike on a vessel operated by a drug trafficking organization in the Caribbean, killing three men aboard.

The operation, directed by President Donald Trump and carried out in international waters, targeted a vessel known to be carrying narcotics along a smuggling route, with no US forces harmed, Hegseth said in an X post.