The U.S. military said on Tuesday (August 25, 2026) that four people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, the latest in a series of attacks Washington says target “narco-terrorists”, but human rights groups have condemned as extrajudicial killings.

The U.S. Southern Command in a post on X said, “Confirmed intelligence revealed ‌the vessel’s active involvement in ‌narco-trafficking. ⁠The operation killed four narco-terrorists,”.

However, the post did not identify the ​individuals or provide ‌details on the location other than to say the vessel was “operating along established narco-trafficking routes in ‌the Caribbean.”

Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and independent U.N. experts have called ‌the strikes unlawful extrajudicial killings.

Earlier on Monday (August 24), the U.S. ​military said that two people were killed in a ⁠strike it launched on a ⁠vessel in the Eastern Pacific over the weekend. That ‌strike marked the first in more than two months.