NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.

In November 2025, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, arrived in the Caribbean at ...

Two suspected drug smugglers on a vessel were killed during a U.S. military drone strike, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. The "lethal kinetic strike" was ordered by President Donald Trump and ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

WASHINGTON – Dick Cheney was once vilified as the Darth Vader of the Republican Party for his aggressive prosecution of Middle East wars, but he embraced the image even as he and his daughter were ...

Since August 2025, U.S. naval forces have carried out missile strikes on small boats off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia — attacks the Trump administration claims target narcotics traffickers but ...

The U.S. military has launched another strike on what it calls a narco-terror vessel in the Caribbean, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday, underscoring a ...

HEFLIN – The CBS Sunday Morning show featured a story about Heflin’s toilet paper wars. News journalist Steven Hartman introduced the segment by telling viewers that each Halloween, students in Heflin ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed the strike killed three suspected smugglers, saying it was “at the direction of President Trump.” The administration argues the cartels have evolved into ...