Editor’s note: This list was updated on Nov. 6, 2025, at 1:07 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Since early September, the U.S. military has conducted strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean in support of what the Pentagon has called continued counternarcotics efforts.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The administration, arguing the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, has described the strikes as necessary to prevent illicit drugs from entering the United States.
Military Times is maintaining a list of strikes conducted by the U.S. military since early September, based on reporting by Military Times, The Associat

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