The admiral conducting the "kinetic strikes" had acted on US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's orders. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Since September, US air strikes have targeted alleged drug-trafficking boats, killing at least 83 people. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pete Hegseth could face a possible war crimes prosecution over a claim that he ordered a second strike to kill survivors of a U.S. missile attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean. The Pentagon chief insisted that all 11 people on board the boat should be killed, according to The Washington Post. “The order was to kill everybody,” alleged two people with direct knowledge of the SEAL Team 6 operation targeting the waterborne drug smugglers.