8 entries in the ledger
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in the Southern District of New York ruled on September 30, 2026, that the Trump administration had failed to justify keeping secret a classified Office of Legal Counsel opinion...
Ben Saul, the UN special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, concluded in a report released September 22, 2026, that the administration's strikes on boats it alleges are smuggling drugs amount to an "illegal...
Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere struck a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Aug. 25, killing four people, U.S. Southern Command said. It was the second strike in August, two days after a strike in the eastern...
U.S. Southern Command announced on Aug. 24 that American forces had carried out a "lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel" in the eastern Pacific the previous day, killing two people it accused of drug...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced during a visit to Panama that Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras had agreed to let U.S. forces conduct joint military operations against criminal groups on their soil, following...
The Washington Post reported on August 13, 2026 that strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galapagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA program. One person with knowledge of the matter...
A previously unreported Drug Enforcement Administration assessment reviewed by The Washington Post found that U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats have not affected the supply or price of cocaine in...
On October 27, 2025, the U.S. military struck four vessels in the eastern Pacific in three separate strikes, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor — the deadliest single day of the campaign that began in early...