WASHINGTON — The Senate has confirmed Marine Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan as the next head of U.S. Southern Command, a role that oversees military activity in Central and South America and the Caribbean ...

Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan assumes the post as the Trump administration seeks to reassert U.S. military dominance ...

U.S. military operation in Caribbean waters reportedly kills three suspected drug traffickers in strike on vessel used by terrorist organizations.

The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Friday, killing three ...

A U.S. military strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, left two people dead and one survivor, U.S. officials said. The action was announced as part of Operation Southern ...

U.S. Southern Command announced 2026’s second strike – and the first under new leadership – on a suspected narcotics ...

Guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG-103) and fast oiler USNS Supply (AOE-6) collided during an underway replenishment on Wednesday, according to a U.S. Southern Command statement. “Two personnel ...

Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, who is overseeing the U.S. military’s strikes against boats in the Caribbean that the Trump administration argues are smuggling drugs into the country, will retire at the end ...