1 day ago - The US aircraft that carried out the first airstrike on a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean was reportedly disguised as a civilian plane – a possible war crime. The New York Times reported that the aircraft had been painted ...

2 days ago - WASHINGTON (TNND) — The U.S. military reportedly used a plane disguised as a civilian aircraft to carry out one of the first deadly strikes on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September.

2 days ago - The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter.

1 day ago - The outlet, citing officials briefed on the matter, reported on Monday that the Pentagon used an aircraft that appeared to be a civilian plane, with its munitions out of view, when it attacked a boat in September.

1 day ago - The Pentagon used a military aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane to attack a boat off the coast of Venezuela in September -- the Trump administration claimed the boat was transporting drugs -- and that deception violates international ...

1 day ago - The New York Times was first to report yesterday on the use of the civilian-looking aircraft, which it also described as a “secret” capability, in the strike on the boat in the Caribbean Sea on September 2, 2025, citing anonymous sources.

14 hours ago - The plane used by the U.S. military to strike an alleged drug-smuggling boat off Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft.

2 days ago - WASHINGTON — The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on ...

1 day ago - The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, a move that appears to be at odds with the Pentagon's manual on the laws of war.

2 days ago - The White House has confirmed that a US admiral acting under the authority of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a "double-tap" military operation, striking the boat twice. "Two survivors of the initial attack later appeared to wave" at ...

1 day ago - A spokeswoman for Türk's office said Türk believed that "airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law." She added, in a statement that contradicts Trump's "armed conflict" declaration, that the strikes were taking place "outside the context" of armed conflict or active hostilities. Amnesty International USA described a strike as murder. Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America said the strike "[l]ooks like a massacre of civilians at sea".

2 days ago - Frank Bradley heads to a classified meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill in December. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) ... The Trump administration’s first deadly strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat, in early September, was conducted by a secretive military aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane, multiple officials confirmed to The Washington Post on Monday.

2 days ago - The U.S. military used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane to carry out its first strike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean last September, the latest potential violation of the laws of war in the Trump ...

1 day ago - The plane used by the U.S. military to strike an alleged drug boat off Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, AP reports.

1 day ago - The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, a move that appears to be at odds with the Pentagon’s manual on the laws of war.

2 days ago - 7. The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a boat that the Trump administration said was smuggling drugs, killing 11 people last September, according to officials briefed on the matter.

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2 days ago - * The plane flew low enough to be seen, the boat turned back toward Venezuela, and two survivors were later killed in a follow-up U.S. strike. * Law-of-war experts told the NYT that using a civilian-looking aircraft to attack may be “perfidy,” a war crime, because combatants are not allowed to pretend to be civilians to deceive targets.