Since then, more than 200 people have been killed in U.S. strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
The US military said on Friday it had destroyed a boat used by drug smugglers as a refuelling station in the eastern Pacific, after US troops removed several people from the vessel without using force ...
The directive to turn its weapons on the boats adds a new element to the Navy's mine-clearing operations in the strait, which began this month.