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 Trump administration gave Republicans a legal rationale and secret target list on its military campaign against drug cartels in the Caribbean, icing out Democrats.

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.

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.

President Donald Trump has expanded his drug war beyond the Caribbean with an attack on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that his administration charges was carrying narcotics — and said Wednesday he was “totally prepared” to escalate the situation even further with land attacks.