Senate Majority Leader John Thune, in defense of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, says the United States is safer now than during the Biden Administration. | Brian Allen KSFY

95K views · 2.2K reactions | WATCH: US Defense Secretary Hegseth affirms the United States’ ironclad commitment to the Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines in his meeting with President Marcos Jr. in Malacañang this Friday, March 28. | via Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News | ABS-CBN News | Facebook

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said a second strike was conducted against an alleged drug vessel off Venezuela on Sept. 2 “in self-defense and “in accordance” with laws governing armed conflict. “The president has the right to take them out,” Leavitt said of alleged drug vessels, if they are “threatening the United States of America.” Leavitt’s comments came after reports that defense officials gave a verbal order to leave no survivors after a first U.S. strike on a suspected drug smuggling bo

United States secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. carried out another deadly strike on an alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific. "Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel—and killed—during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. No U.S. forces were harmed in this strike," Hegseth posted on X. | LiveNOW from FOX

14K views · 266 reactions | United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth muling tiniyak ang iron clad commitment sa Pilipinas sa ilalim ng Trump administration | BOMBO RADYO PHILIPPINES | Facebook

16K views · 440 reactions | The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed a defense cooperation agreement on Monday with Papua New Guinea, and announced other security and humanitarian support, in a deepening of its relationship with the most populous Pacific island country. EMTV NEWS - MAY 23, 2023 | Luksave imas stap oltaim | Facebook