THE LATEST | CANADACNN: People briefed on the “double-tap” strike said they were concerned that it could violate the law of armed conflict, which prohibits the execution of an enemy combatant who is “hors de combat,” or taken out of the fight due to injury or surrender…
Wall Street Journal: The White House attempted to defuse a growing controversy over an attack on an alleged drug boat in September, saying an admiral who ordered a second strike that is reported to have killed two survivors had acted legally under authority granted him by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
The Hill: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September following a bombshell Washington Post report that claimed he ordered the military to “kill everybody…
Washington Post: President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has “great confidence” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September…
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