The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced on Sunday that U.S. forces carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a drug-trafficking vessel in Eastern Pacific waters, killing three male narco-terrorists.
SOUTHCOM informed in an official statement that the operation was carried out by Joint Task Force Southern Spear at the direction of Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the statement read.
“Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed,” the statement concluded.
SOUTHCOM shared unclassified footage of the strike on its website and on social media.
Sunday’s strike is the latest publicly known military operation of its nature since the start of Operation Southern Spear, a U.S. military counter-narco-terrorism security campaign launched by the Department of War in late 2025 aimed at detecting, disrupting,
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