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2025-12-12 17:40
Top admiral forced out as U.S. escalates military aggression in the Caribbean
The admiral in charge of U.S. military forces in Latin America will retire two years early on Friday, amid rising tensions with Venezuela that include Wednesday's seizure of an oil tanker and more than 20 deadly strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats, Reuters reported.
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2025-12-05 18:58
U.S. kills four more in Pacific strike as Pentagon war-crime controversy intensifies
The U.S. military destroyed another suspected narcotics vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday, killing all four men aboard in the 22nd such lethal operation since September.
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2025-12-03 14:52
Family of victim in Trump drug boat killings files first formal complaint
A family in Colombia filed a petition on Tuesday with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September, The Guardian reported.
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2025-12-02 19:14
By staff writer
Venezuelan voices vs. America’s cannons
TEHRAN – Venezuelans took to the streets in Caracas and other cities this week to protest escalating U.S. military pressure. The demonstrations follow the continued presence of the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean and thousands of U.S. troops in the region. The U.S. has also carried out more than 20 strikes on maritime targets in the Caribbean and Pacific since early September, killing over 80 people, actions that Caracas says go beyond anti-drug operations and threaten Venezuelan sovereignty.
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2025-11-29 14:45
Execution of survivors under Hegseth’s ‘kill everybody’ order labeled a war crime
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly gave a verbal order to leave no survivors behind as Donald Trump’s administration launched the first of more than a dozen attacks on alleged drug-running boats that have killed more than 80 people over the last three months, according to The Independent.
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2025-11-09 20:28
By staff writer
War or peace: What Hegseth and Trump signal
TEHRAN – U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on Friday that left no ambiguity: the United States is not seeking to avoid war — it is actively preparing for a global confrontation. Speaking at the National War College, Hegseth compared today’s world to 1939, the year World War II began, and 1981, when Cold War tensions surged. These weren’t just historical references — they were warnings. And more than that, they were a roadmap.
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2025-11-02 18:26
U.S. strike kills three in the Caribbean, no proof of drug activity
Three men were killed in a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean, US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said, the BBC reported.
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2025-10-28 19:14
U.S. Navy's deadly Pacific blitz: 14 slain in 'narco' strikes, total tops 57
The U.S. military killed 14 people in three strikes in the eastern Pacific, an operation disclosed Tuesday on X by War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who labeled the slain “narco-terrorists.”
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2025-10-25 19:47
By Shahrokh Saei
From cocaine to crude: Unmasking the U.S. agenda in Venezuela
TEHRAN – U.S. media reports have blown the lid off the White House’s plans for regime change in Venezuela, revealing flimsy excuses for possible military action that simply don’t hold water.
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2025-10-20 20:25
By Shahrokh Saei
Caribbean crisis: U.S. military actions fuel Latin American pushback
TEHRAN – The United States’ deadly attacks on vessels in Caribbean waters off Venezuela and Colombia, coupled with President Donald Trump’s escalating threats, have thrust the region into global attention. Since early September, nearly 30 people have been killed in strikes that the Trump administration claims are aimed at dismantling drug trafficking networks.
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2025-03-26 21:23
Attack plans on Yemen's Houthis that Trump’s advisers shared on Signal
The Atlantic has published what it said were “attack plans” against Yemen’s Houthi rebels that top United States government officials shared in a group chat that inadvertently included the media outlet’s editor-in-chief.