United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said yesterday that he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, expanding what the Trump administration has declared is an “armed conflict” with cartels.

In a post on social media, Hegseth asserted that the “vessel was trafficking narcotics” and those aboard were “narco-terrorists”.

DESTROYED: This image taken from video shows a strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela yesterday.