{"id":1514,"date":"2026-02-10T02:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:43:49","slug":"us-military-strikes-alleged-drug-boat-in-the-eastern-pacific-leaving-2-dead-and-1-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1514","title":{"rendered":"US military strikes alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, leaving 2 dead and 1 survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F02%2Fus-military-launches-deadly-strike-120831282.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced Monday that the\u00a0US military\u00a0carried out an<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/06\/us-news\/us-strikes-another-alleged-drug-trafficking-boat-in-eastern-pacific-killing-2-2\/\"> operation targeting a drug-trafficking vessel <\/a>in the Eastern Pacific, leaving two people dead and one survivor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Feb. 9, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Southcom\/status\/2021023735881564262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the agency said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the strike, the US Southern Command said it immediately notified the US Coast Guard to search for the survivor.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/09\/us-news\/us-military-strikes-alleged-drug-boat-in-the-eastern-pacific-leaving-2-dead-and-1-survivor\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced Monday that the\u00a0US military\u00a0carried out an operation targeting a drug-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific, leaving two people dead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}