WASHINGTON, United States, Dec 18, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US forces on Wednesday carried out a strike on a vessel it said was engaged in drug trafficking in the Pacific Ocean, killing four "narco-terrorists," the US Southern Command announced.

The US military "conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization" in the Eastern Pacific which was engaged in "narco-trafficking operations," the Southern Command said on X.

"A total of four male narco-terrorists were killed, and no US military forces were harmed," it added.