WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy has rescued two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a semisubmersible vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea and is holding them aboard a Navy ship there, two U.S. officials said Friday.

The Navy for now is detaining the two people aboard a warship in international waters, marking the first time the military has found itself holding prisoners from President Donald Trump’s six-week-old campaign of targeting suspected drug runners as if they were combatants in a war.

The Trump administration now faces a dilemma about whether to release the two people, claim it can hold them as indefinite wartime detainees, or transfer them to civilian law enforcement officials for prosecution — a major and messy set of new legal and policy problems that could

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