Markwayne Mullin lost his cool as he was questioned about reports of the U.S. potentially committing war crimes in the Caribbean Sea. “Why would it be true?” the senator asked State of the Union host Dana Bash on Sunday, later complaining: “I don’t know why we’re spending so much time on this!” Dana Bash questioned…
U.S. President Donald Trump suggested his administration could soon hold talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. It comes amid a large-scale U.S. military build-up in the Caribbean under Trump’s mission to eradicate the threat of drug cartels that his White House has designated foreign terrorist organizations. His administration has linked socialist Maduro to one of…
Russia could send its most advanced hypersonic missiles to Venezuela as tensions with the United States escalate. Alexei Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defense committee, told Russian news outlet Gazeta.Ru there were “no obstacles” to providing the Oreshnik or Kalibr missiles to the “friendly” nation. “Russia is actually one of Venezuela’s key military-technical partners….
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Saturday. Hegseth in a social media posting said the vessel was operated by a U.S.-designated terrorist organization but did not name which group was targeted. He said…
Twenty members of a gang designated a “foreign terrorist organization” by the United States have escaped from detention in Guatemala, a prison chief said Sunday. The members of the Barrio 18 gang “evaded security controls” at the Fraijanes II facility, prison director Ludin Godinez said at a news conference. He received “an intelligence report” Friday…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, according to a social media post. “Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike,” which “was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation’s top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show. The most sweeping…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military strike on what the Trump administration says was a drug-carrying speedboat from Venezuela came after the vessel had turned around and was heading back to shore, raising fresh questions as members of Congress are demanding more information about the provocative attack. National security officials acknowledged during a closed briefing…
More than 600 people were arrested in a weeklong series of operations targeting the Sinaloa drug cartel, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced on Monday. The operations took place between Aug. 25 and Aug. 29, according to the DEA. During that timespan, DEA agents in 23 field divisions in the U.S., and seven “foreign regions,” carried…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela. The president offered scant details on the operation. “When you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally, shot a boat…