The US Southern Command seized the oil tanker 'Olina' in the Caribbean, the fifth such capture in a crackdown on illicit ...

U.S. Southern Command said Thursday that the Pentagon carried out another “lethal kinetic strike” at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s direction on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean that killed ...

The latest attacks bring the total number of known boat strikes to 35 and the number of people killed to at least 115 since ...

(CNN) — Adm. Alvin Holsey, the commander of US Southern Command who reportedly clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the legality of US military strikes in the Caribbean, officially retired ...

The Pentagon’s recurrent elevation of special suggests that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth particularly values discipline and lethality at the department’s senior-most levels. The Department of ...

In December 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned as the head of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) because of Pete Hegseth's Venezuelan boat strike orders.

President Donald Trump has nominated Marine Corps Lieutenant General Francis L. Donovan to become the next commander of U.S. Southern Command, setting the stage for a leadership transition at one of ...