Closing out the week – SOFREP Evening Brief for October 3, 2025.

US Expands Caribbean Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Killing Four Off Venezuela

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday the US military struck a small boat off Venezuela, killing four men in what he described as a narcotics-trafficking operation linked to “narco-terrorists.”

It was the fourth deadly strike in the Caribbean since President Donald Trump declared drug cartels unlawful combatants , framing the campaign as an armed conflict.

The Trump administration says the four operations have killed 21 people, though it has provided few details on which groups were targeted.

Earlier this morning, on President Trump’s orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated

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