The US military said on Wednesday three people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, the latest in a series of attacks that Washington says target "narco-terrorists" but human rights groups condemn as extrajudicial killings, Reuters said. DETAILS: * US Southern Command said on X it "executed a lethal kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean." * It cited "confirmed intelligence" to allege the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking, without providing more details. * The US military said three people, whom it called "narco-terrorists," were killed. * President Donald Trump's administration has said the vessels it has struck since September 2025 were transporting narcotics. * The US military's strikes on such vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific have killed more than 220 people. * Experts and rights advocates, both in the US and globally, have questioned the legality of the strikes. * Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and independent UN experts have called the strikes unlawful extrajudicial killings. * The American Civil Liberties Union has cast the assertions by the Trump administration against those it targets as "unsubstantiated, fear-mongering claims."
