Wrap up your Friday with the SOFREP Evening Brief – October 24, 2025.

US Carries Out 10th Strike on Suspected Drug Boat, Killing Six

The US military struck a suspected drug-running boat overnight in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday, killing six people and tying the vessel to the Tren de Aragua gang.

Hegseth posted a video of the strike and described it as the 10th such operation since September.

The pace of strikes has accelerated recently, with three this week, bringing the reported death toll from the campaign to at least 43. The operations have moved into the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean.

Overnight, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Desig

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