This screengrab of a video posted to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on September 15, 2025, shows a boat on which Trump said he ordered a military strike. The president said the boat was carrying narcotics from Venezuela. Donald Trump/Truth Social

The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly “transporting illegal narcotics” from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday.

“This morning, on my Orders, US Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuel

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