ISTANBUL A US military strike on a vessel in the Eastern Pacific killed three people suspected of narcotics smuggling, US Southern Command announced Sunday. "On Nov. 15 (Saturday), at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization," the command said on the US social media company X’s platform, using a secondary title for the defense secretary. US intelligence confirmed