{"id":666723,"date":"2026-01-01T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:34:14","slug":"watch-us-launch-fresh-strike-on-five-more-alleged-drug-boats-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/666723\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: US launch fresh strike on five more alleged drug boats | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US military have confirmed fresh strikes on five alleged drug boats which have left at least eight dead.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-military-strike-drug-boats-b2892962.html\" title=\"US strikes three more alleged drug boats, leaving three dead as others jump overboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Southern Command posted footage of the attacks to social media on Tuesday and Wednesday<\/a> (30, 31 December), but did not confirm the location of the strikes. Previous operations have taken place in the Caribbean sea and eastern Pacific ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on Tuesday showed a strike on a convoy of three boats travelling along \u201cknown narco-trafficking routes\u201d which left three \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d confirmed dead, while others jumped overboard.<\/p>\n<p>The second video shows an attack on two more boats US intelligence confirmed were \u201cengaged in narco-trafficking\u201d, which left five more dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US military have confirmed fresh strikes on five alleged drug boats which have left at least eight dead.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-666723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115819633882909960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}