The U.S. military continued its assault on what it claims are drug-running boats off the coastal waters of Latin America with another strike Thursday that the Pentagon said killed four people.

The strike in the Eastern Pacific was ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post that included unclassified video of the attack.

"Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route in the Eastern Pacific," said U.S. Southern Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off Central and South America. "Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed."

Since early September, the U.S. military has launched at least 22 str

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