In a split second, drug interdictions can switch from chase to search and rescue. Here's how Coast Guard helicopter squadrons ...

The US Coast Guard follows a set legal process for interdicting drug boats. Here's how personnel combat drug trafficking on ...

The strikes have come amid a broader buildup of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean as the Trump administration continues ...

President Donald Trump says U.S. military strikes on eight vessels in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, mostly targeting boats from Venezuela, were legal because they carried drugs being ...

The claim that the U.S. is in armed conflict with drug cartels doesn’t justify military attacks on alleged drug-running boats ...

A bipartisan pair of senators are calling on Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to hand over copies of the orders issued to strike boats in the Caribbean allegedly carrying narco-terrorists. Sens. Jack Reed, ...

NPR reports for the first time on remarks from a Justice Department official who told prosecutors the U.S. should "just sink" drug boats — six months before drug strikes began in the Caribbean.

The Mexican president announces that a protocol for working in international waters has been agreed upon with a view to stopping the attacks ...

The strike in the Caribbean brings the death toll in the Trump administration’s lethal campaign to 80 since early September.

CIA personnel running the Airbridge Denial Program, a drug-interdiction operation in Peru between 1995 and 2001, wanted to avoid catastrophic mishaps, such as, they said, shooting down “a ...