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2025-12-18 09:49:09
[US Southern Command: Ordered to Strike Drug Trafficking Ship in Eastern Pacific] On the 17th local time, the US Southern Command posted on social media that it had launched an operation against a ship "identified as a terrorist organization" in international waters of the Eastern Pacific, resulting in the deaths of four people. The US Southern Command stated that on that day, under the direction of the US Secretary of Defense, the "Southern Spear" joint task force carried out a lethal strike against a ship in international waters identified as a terrorist organization. US intelligence confirmed that the ship was sailing along "a known drug trafficking route and engaging in drug smuggling activities" in the Eastern Pacific. Four male "drug terrorists" were killed in the operation.
