US Announces 29th Strike on Drug Boat

The Pentagon as seen from the Washington Monument in Washington on Nov. 17, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe United States military Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) on Monday evening announced that the United States has carried out a 29th strike targeting drug runners in the waters off South and Central America.“On Dec. 22, at the direction of [Secretary of War] Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters,” SOUTHCOM wrote in a post on X.