The U.S. military on Tuesday morning carried out its fifth strike on an alleged drug-running vessel in the Caribbean Sea and killed all six crew members.

President Donald Trump said the strike was carried out in international waters near Venezuela on Tuesday morning using a kinetic strike against the vessel upon an order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narco-terrorist networks and was transiting along a known [designated terrorist organization] route," Trump said Tuesday afternoon in a Truth Social post.

The president did not say where the suspected drug vessel originated.

Six male "narco-terrorists" were killed in the strike, and no U.S. military personnel were harmed during the action, Trump

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