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Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police on early Thursday morning updated the official death toll of Tuesday’s massive police raid against the deadly Comando Vermelho (“Red Command”) drug-trafficking gang from an initial 64 to 121.

In a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s maritime war on narco-terrorism, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the first lethal military strike outside the Caribbean Sea — targeting and destroying a drug-smuggling vessel off Colombia’s Pacific coast.

President Donald Trump announced the fourth U.S. military strike targeting narcoterrorist operations in the USSOUTHCOM region, confirming that a vessel linked to a designated terrorist organization was destroyed in international waters off the coast of Venezuela early Tuesday. The strike killed six suspected traffickers, marking a continued escalation in his administration’s maritime counter-narcotics campaign.

Cartel gunmen in Mexico put up two banners addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel and other officials from the U.S. and Mexico, threatening U.S. citizens living in the Cabo San Lucas and San Jose areas. The threats point to the U.S. getting involved in the cartel’s turf war in Sinaloa and Baja California.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa, who was reelected for a second term on Sunday, reiterated on Tuesday his goal of establishing a security alliance with U.S. President Donald Trump to receive “real help” to fight crime.

The Taliban “Ministry of Foreign Affairs” announced Tuesday that one of its members has been traded by the U.S. for two American prisoners.

Heavily armed men released a video threatening Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich and Santa Fe Governor Maximiliano Pullaro.

Taliban narco-jihadis killed at least 68 members of the U.S.-backed Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) and injured 38 others in fierce clashes over the weekend in the terrorist group’s opium-rich stronghold of Helmand, Afghanistan’s largest province located along the Pakistani border.

Authorities in Coahuila confirmed the discovery of more than 3,000 human bone fragments in a cartel killing field and incineration site. The remains were found in the southwestern part of the state; an area where the Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas fought for years.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Autoridades en este estado están bajo alerta luego de que 4 policías de el estado de San Luis Potosí fueran heridos este mes por un artefacto explosivo improvisado.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Authorities are on alert after four police officers from the state of San Luis Potosi were injured by an improvised explosive device.

Sicarios mexicanos pertenecientes a un cartel planeaban utilizar un dron como una arma de terrorismo al pegar una carga explosiva al popular aparato electronico volador. La nueva tactica se lleva acabo en una zona que ah visto un repunte de narco-violencia.

Gunmen belonging to a Mexican cartel planned to use a drone as a weapon by strapping an improvised explosive device to the popular flying tech. The new tactic was unveiled in a region seeing a sharp spike in cartel violence.

Mexican intelligence services are sounding the alarm about one of Mexico’s most violent cartels turning to the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as part of their terrorist-style tactics. A leaked report from Mexico’s intelligence service CISEN revealed the ruthless Cartel

Some family members of the Hezbollah-linked minister of industry in Lebanon have accused the Shiite jihadist group, considered Iran’s terrorist proxy, of drug trafficking and embezzling money.