The United States conducted a joint military operation to combat designated terrorist organization in Ecuador, working alongside Ecuadorian forces in an operation announced by the Pentagon on Tuesday.

The U.S. military says it's carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters.

The U.S. military blew up another alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean on Monday, killing three “narco-terrorists” in the operation, it said. The vessel was operated by a designated terrorist organization,

The series of strikes brought the death toll to at least 145 people since the administration began targeting the small vessels since September.

The U.S. military says it killed three people in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea.

Even if U.S. drug policy weren’t being created by people with the analytical skills of a meth-addled raccoon, it probably still wouldn’t make much of a dent.

Since the administration began targeting those it calls "narcoterrorists" in small vessels last year, at least 148 people have been killed in the strikes.

The death toll from the strikes on alleged drug boats is now at 144 people in at least 42 attacks carried out since early September.

The U.S. military said that it struck an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three people.U.S.

The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Friday, killing three people, according to US Southern Command.