United States President Donald Trump says American forces have carried out another strike targeting a ship that he claimed was “trafficking illicit narcotics”, killing at least three men on board the vessel.
The announcement, late on Friday, marks the third time the US has claimed a deadly attack on an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month.
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President Donald Trump has said US forces carried out a "lethal kinetic strike" on a vessel which he said was trafficking drugs, and the attack killed three "male narcoterrorists" on board.
ReplyDeleteTrump said he ordered the attack on the boat, which was in the US Southern Command's area of responsibility, after US intelligence confirmed it was trafficking drugs. It was the third such strike on alleged drug boats in recent weeks.
Trump's statement on Truth Social on Friday said the strike happened in international waters. The US Southern Command's area of responsibility covers most of South America and the Caribbean.
Two previous strikes have killed a total of 14 people on boats allegedly from Venezuela.
The administration of US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to issue a ruling that would allow more than 300,000 Venezuelan citizens to be stripped of their "temporary protected person" status, Politico reported.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the newspaper, the US Justice Department has asked the court to suspend the ruling that the Trump administration unlawfully deprived Venezuelan citizens of their legal grounds for staying in the US after being forced to leave their country, TASS reported.