The deployment comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 10th strike against a suspected drug smuggling vessel.

Hegseth equated the alleged drug traffickers to the terror group that conducted the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Pete Hegseth claimed that six ‘narco-terrorists’ onboard craft were killed in night strike in international waters

The U.S. military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Friday.

The US has carried out several strikes in the region as part of an anti-drug trafficking effort

The United States attacked a boat allegedly operated by a Venezuelan drug-smuggling operation, killing six people, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced.

The deployment comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 10th strike against a suspected drug smuggling vessel.

The USS Gerald R. Ford and its accompanying ships were previously off the coast of Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.

The U.S. military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Friday.

The USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group is headed to the Caribbean to escalate the nation's military presence amid strikes on alleged drug-running vessels.

WASHINGTON: The US military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the region, the Pentagon…

Use of USS Gerald Ford along with fighter jets comes as president plots strikes against alleged cartels on land

USS Gerald Ford carrier and other warships will head to coast of Venezuela. Key US politics stories from Friday 24 October at a glance