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CONFLICTELEVATEDAug 24 · Aug 24, 2026, 4:48 PM

US strikes vessel in eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months

South China Morning Post

US forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people accused of trafficking drugs, the US military said on Monday, in the first attack announced in about two months. The death toll in the nearly year-long US campaign of bombing boats allegedly trafficking drugs now exceeds 210 after more than 60 strikes off Latin America’s Caribbean coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Forces “executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established...

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