The U.S. military launched retaliatory strikes on Friday against ISIS targets in Syria, according to a statement issued by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on social media.

The retaliatory strikes came one week after an ISIS gunman killed three Americans, including two Iowa National Guardsmen and a U.S. civilian interpreter.

The US military has killed 99 people in strikes that have destroyed 27 boats as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States. There had been three survivors of those strikes,

The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny is intensifying in Congress.

(Washington, DC, September 18, 2025) – United States military strikes against two boats allegedly carrying drug traffickers, which the Trump administration said killed at least 14 people, were unlawful extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch said today.

President Donald Trump has linked his administration’s attacks on drug vessels in Latin America to the fentanyl crisis, among other drugs. Here's what the data shows.

The strikes bring the total to 28 boats hit, killing at least 104 people. Largest wildlife overpass in North America opens across six-lane interstate

The United States has launched one of its largest military operations in Syria in recent years, unleashing devastating airstrikes on ISIS targets across central Syria. The operation follows a deadly attack in Palmyra that killed two U.