U.S. Navy targets cocaine smugglers in Caribbean waters as drug cartels shift tactics from sea routes to aircraft. Maritime counter-narcotics campaign forces traffickers to adapt.

The White House claims, without providing evidence, the vessel was operated by a 'designated terrorist organisation'.

Of all the failures by Congress this year to fulfil its role under the constitution—to insist upon its authority over spending and tariffs or upon the continued existence of agencies it voted into being—nothing is as dangerous as its reluctance to scrutinise the Trump administration’s killings of people it says are smuggling drugs by sea.

Legal experts say U.S. strikes against alleged members of Latin American drug cartels are pushing the bounds of international law

On Monday, the United States carried out three strikes on four alleged drug-trafficking boats, killing 14 and leaving one survivor.

U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin argues it's unprecedented for President Donald Trump's administration to wage war with unnamed adversaries.