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U.S. Sec­re­tary of War Pe­te Hegseth an­nounced that the Unit­ed States car­ried out a lethal strike on a ves­sel op­er­at­ed by a des­ig­nat­ed ter­ror­ist or­ga­ni­za­tion in the East­ern Pa­cif­ic.

Ac­cord­ing to Sec­re­tary Hegseth, the ac­tion was di­rect­ed by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump. The ves­sel was re­port­ed­ly in­volved in nar­cotics smug­gling and was trav­el­ing along a known traf­fick­ing route. In­tel­li­gence sources in­di­cat­ed that the ves­sel was car­ry­ing il­le­gal drugs at the time of the op­er­a­tion.

The strike, de­scribed as ki­net­ic, was con­duct­ed in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters.