Legal experts say U.S. strikes against alleged members of Latin American drug cartels are pushing the bounds of international law.

Police in Trinidad and Tobago said they have received reports that two of the country's citizens were killed in a U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat.

On Wednesday, at least two B-52 bombers from Louisiana flew for several hours off the Venezuelan coast in international air space in what one senior U.S. official on Thursday called “a show of force.” The B-52s can carry dozens of precision-guided bombs.

T hree B-52 bombers were detected flying around international airspace near the coast of Venezuela earlier this week. The trio of aircraft, call signs BUNNY01, BUNNY02, and BUNNY03, was reportedly flying on extended flight patterns originating from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

Venezuela has asked the United Nations Security Council to determine that deadly U.S. strikes on vessels off its coast are illegal and issue a statement backing Venezuela's sovereignty, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday.

Adm. Alvin Holsey, a Navy pilot who led U.S. Southern Command in the early stages of the burgeoning targets against the region's drug cartels directed at Venezuela, "plans to retire at year's end," according to an X post by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Venezuela's Ambassador to the UN condemns US strikes in Caribbean, calling for investigation into extrajudicial killings.

The United States has clashed with Venezuela and its allies at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, President Donald Trump said Tuesday. It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as Trump's administration has asserted it's treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.