A U.S. military strike overnight that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said killed six people aboard a vessel linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, has raised the tally of fatalities from the U.S. campaign to 43, according to AFP's running count based on U.S. figures.
Hegseth posted that the strike, conducted in international waters "at the direction of President Trump," struck a vessel "operated by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Designated Terrorist Organization," and that "six male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike..."
