The U.S. military carried out two new strikes on suspected drug vessels in the eastern Pacific, killing five people.

Yesterday, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel being operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization and conducting narco-trafficking in the Eastern Pacific. The vessel was known by our intelligence to be… pic.twitter.com/BayDhUZ4Ac

The operation was one of several that resulted in the Coast Guard seizing more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine from ships in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that the US Southern Command carried out a second “lethal kinetic strike” in the Pacific Ocean in less than 24 hours. Hegseth stated that these attacks will “continue,

President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro traded angry threats Wednesday as the United States announced its first strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Pacific Ocean,

The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists.