{"id":71852,"date":"2026-04-15T23:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/us-launches-fifth-strike-on-alleged-pacific-drug-boat-in-a-week-killing-three\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:54:44","slug":"us-launches-fifth-strike-on-alleged-pacific-drug-boat-in-a-week-killing-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/us-launches-fifth-strike-on-alleged-pacific-drug-boat-in-a-week-killing-three\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches fifth strike on alleged Pacific drug boat in a week, killing three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s strike brings the total of those killed in US military strikes on alleged drug boats to at least 177<\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed in a US strike on another alleged drug-trafficking boat, the fifth such deadly attack in as many days, military officials have announced.<\/p>\n<p>US southern command said it conducted \u201ca lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations\u201d in the eastern Pacific, without naming the alleged group, in an X post.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/16\/us-launches-fifth-strike-on-alleged-pacific-drug-boat-in-a-week-killing-three\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s strike brings the total of those killed in US military strikes on alleged drug boats to at least 177 Three people were killed in a US strike on another alleged drug-trafficking boat, the fifth such deadly attack in as many days, military officials have announced. US southern command said it conducted \u201ca lethal kinetic &#8230; <a title=\"US launches fifth strike on alleged Pacific drug boat in a week, killing three\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/us-launches-fifth-strike-on-alleged-pacific-drug-boat-in-a-week-killing-three\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US launches fifth strike on alleged Pacific drug boat in a week, killing three\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}