US military says it struck vessel in Caribbean, killing three

WASHINGTON, Sept 9 - The U.S. military said on Wednesday three people were killed in a strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, the latest in a series of attacks that Washington says target "narco-terrorists" but human rights groups condemn as extrajudicial killings.DETAILS:• U.S. Southern Command said on X it "executed a lethal kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean."• It cited "confirmed intelligence" to allege the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking, without providing more details.• The U.S. military said three people, whom it called "narco-terrorists," were killed.• President Donald Trump's administration has said the vessels it has struck since September 2025 were transporting narcotics.• The U.S. military's strikes on such vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific have killed more than 220 people.• Experts and rights advocates, both in the U.S. and globally, have questioned the legality of the strikes.• Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and independent U.N. experts have called the strikes unlawful extrajudicial killings.• The American Civil Liberties Union has cast the assertions by the Trump administration against those it targets as "unsubstantiated, fear-mongering claims." REUTERS