US Strike Kills Drug Traffickers in Pacific

0:00It's April 16th. I'm Corey with The Story, and this is US News Today, your AI-powered national briefing. US forces just dropped a strike on a boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean this Wednesday, taking out three men, the Pentagon pins, as drug traffickers. No American troops got hurt in the action, straight from US Southern Command. This hit comes amid a flurry of similar ops announced lately, as the Trump administration pushes hard against cartels out in international waters. Since these efforts kicked off in early September way, before that January raid nabbing Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, at least 178, folks have been killed in the strikes. Southern Command labelled it a lethal takedown of a vessel run by a designated terrorist group, cruising right along prime narco-trafficking paths. They hail back names, exact spots, or any hard-proof linking the men to the drugs. With cartels though running wild on those routes, expect the US to keep these precision hits coming to choke the flow.