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Footage seen by US senators shows two unarmed, shirtless men struggling to stay afloat before they were killed, sources sayExperts say Trump’s ‘drug boat’ war is legally shakyTwo men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the…
Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, are under scrutiny over military strikes on suspected drug boats from Venezuela in the Ca…
Defence secretary appears to contradict previous assurances from Penny Wong that only conventionally armed submarines will visit Australian ports under Aukus dealFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free ap…
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglersThe Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military had conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four m…
Democrat Jim Himes calls footage ‘one of the most troubling scenes’ he’s observed in public serviceAnalysis: Killing of survivors sparks outrage – but entire US ‘drug boat’ war is legally shakyTop Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress on Thur…
Pentagon’s Law of War manual clearly prohibits attack, but justification for whole campaign also faces tough questionsGraphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provo…
Report says defense secretary violated policies in sharing secret information in March on planned airstrike in YemenA widely awaited Department of Defense report concluded that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, violated departmental policies when he…
US House and Senate lawmakers to meet with top admiral on Thursday about double strike on boats from VenezuelaAs the Trump administration continues military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, several Republican lawmakers are ra…
Gustavo Petro responded to intimations by US president of military strikes on Colombian soil to fight drug traffickingColombia’s president has warned Donald Trump that he risked “waking the jaguar” after the US leader suggested that any country he beli…
Officials hew closely to secret memo which gives legal cover to firing on boats even if it would kill people on board Trump administration officials have defended carrying out a follow-up strike on a drug boat that killed survivors on 2 September by ar…