Hegseth Says US Strikes Another Drug-Smuggling Boat, Killing 3 Onboard

The Pentagon chief said that U.S. strikes on drug smuggling vessels will continue ‘until their … poisoning of the American people stops.’A still from footage of a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean on Nov. 6, 2025. @SecWar/X11/7/2025|Updated: 11/7/2025Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military carried out another lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in the Caribbean that was transporting illegal drugs to the United States on Nov. 6.Hegseth stated on social media that the strike targeted a vessel run by a “designated terrorist organization,” killing three people on board whom he described as “narco-terrorists.”Aldgra Fredly is a freelance writer covering U.S. and Asia Pacific news for The Epoch Times. Author’s Selected Articles