{"id":77812,"date":"2026-08-24T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/us-kills-two-narco-terrorists-in-strike-2-months-since-last-announced-anti-narco-trafficking-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:55:01","slug":"us-kills-two-narco-terrorists-in-strike-2-months-since-last-announced-anti-narco-trafficking-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/us-kills-two-narco-terrorists-in-strike-2-months-since-last-announced-anti-narco-trafficking-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"US kills two ‘narco-terrorists’ in strike 2 months since last announced anti-‘narco-trafficking’ attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. military<\/a> conducted a deadly attack against a vessel on Sunday, killing two people that it described as “narco-terrorists.”<\/p>\n

Video footage shows the explosive strike on the low-profile vessel.<\/p>\n

“On August 23, under the commander of U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan\u2019s direction, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific,” an Aug. 24 news release stated.<\/p>\n

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“Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed two narco-terrorists,” the release noted.<\/p>\n

The military has executed dozens of strikes against alleged drug trafficking vessels during President Donald Trump’s<\/a> second term in office, a policy that has been controversial.<\/p>\n

US MILITARY CONDUCTS STRIKE ON ANOTHER VESSEL CARRYING ALLEGED NARCO-TRAFFICKERS, KILLING 2<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The last time U.S. Southern Command announced such a strike was just over two months ago on June 21 \u2014 that strike killed two, but there were six survivors.<\/p>\n

“When I ordered the establishment of Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere, it was precisely for this purpose: to accelerate, synchronize, and execute lethal actions against these destabilizing narco-terrorist networks,” Donovan said, according to the Monday announcement about the strike carried out on Sunday. “We are committed to imposing total systemic friction on narco-terrorists — disrupting their operations, dismantling their leadership, and eliminating cartel terror across the region.”<\/p>\n

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“Let me be clear, we will not permit narco-terrorists to operate with impunity in the Western Hemisphere, nor will we allow their deadly poison<\/a> to reach American communities. This operation is a powerful demonstration of our lethal precision, overwhelming capability, and absolute resolve to protect the U.S. homeland,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. military conducted a deadly attack against a vessel on Sunday, killing two people that it described as “narco-terrorists.” Video footage shows the explosive strike on the low-profile vessel. “On August 23, under the commander of U.S. Southern Command, Gen. Francis L. Donovan\u2019s direction, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike … 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77812","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=77812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}