President Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela. The president’s figures “are ...

The Trump administration has said that it is attacking boats and killing their occupants because they are smuggling drugs from Venezuela to the United States. By Julie Turkewitz and Robert Jimison ...

WASHINGTON – An attempt in the Senate to stop President Donald Trump from launching deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea failed on Oct. 8 after 51 Republicans voted it down. The War Powers ...

The U.N. Security Council met Friday to discuss the Trump administration’s deadly attacks on what it asserts were drug smugglers in the Caribbean. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has covered the U.N.

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) on Sunday characterized a string of U.S. strikes on Venezuelan boats in international waters as “illegal killings,” saying the White House has not yet shared their legal ...

Republican senators voted down a measure to halt the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of Venezuela that President Trump’s administration argues are smuggling drugs into the country.

The president of Colombia alleged Wednesday that a boat struck by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea last week carried Colombian citizens, a claim a White House official called "baseless and ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A boat caught fire Saturday afternoon near the Kaluz restaurant off Commercial Boulevard after one of its engines exploded shortly after departure. Owner Ivan Sayles and a ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump said Wednesday that the administration is considering targeting Venezuela-based drug cartels on land after taking out about half a dozen drug smuggling vessels. “We are ...

The videos of carnage on the open seas have, by now, become almost routine: A small, fast-moving boat skips along the waves. Seconds later, it erupts into a ball of flame after munitions flying too ...

The White House on Thursday denied claims from Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro that the latest U.S. military strike in the Caribbean struck a boat carrying Colombian citizens. Petro on Wednesday ...