Helene Cooper

President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.

The troops are deployed in the capital as part of the president’s crackdown on crime.

The secretary, Daniel Driscoll, held talks in Geneva over the weekend with a Ukrainian delegation. “We remain optimistic,” his spokesman said.

The strike in the Caribbean brings the death toll in the Trump administration’s lethal campaign to 80 since early September.

American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa’s most populous country, despite President Trump’s order, officials said.

El Pentágono dijo que una persona sobrevivió a un ataque militar estadounidense contra una embarcación en el Pacífico, pero tras días de búsqueda, las autoridades mexicanas están a punto de darse por vencidas.

The Pentagon said one person survived a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Pacific, but after searching for days, Mexican officials are about to give up.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the latest strike took place on Wednesday in the eastern Pacific. It came two days after the deadliest set of strikes in the weekslong campaign in Latin America.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the three strikes hit four boats in international waters and that there had been one survivor.

By sending troops to U.S. cities that are not in active crisis, President Trump is breaking with military tradition. Helene Cooper, who covers national security issues for The New York Times, compares his recent actions with earlier domestic military deployments.