Matthew C. Waxman is an adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S. military has struck at least five vessels that allegedly originated from ...

President Donald Trump has sought to justify the summary execution of suspected drug smugglers by arguing that the United States is engaged in an "armed conflict" with criminal organizations that ...

A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.” By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington ...