Six people onboard the vessel were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed.
A screenshot shows the moment before a U.S. military strike on a vessel suspected of carrying narcotics through international waters near Venezuela, posted by War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Oct. 24, 2025. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth via X
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The U.S. military carried out its 10th strike on a drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean Sea, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Oct. 24.
Hegseth said in a post on X that U.S. forces conducted a lethal strike on a boat operated by Tren de Aragua, which is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
