(CNN) US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump an­nounced yes­ter­day an­oth­er lethal mil­i­tary strike on an al­leged drug-traf­fick­ing ves­sel in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters that he said was af­fil­i­at­ed with a des­ig­nat­ed ter­ror­ist or­gan­i­sa­tion.

In a so­cial me­dia post, Trump said the strike tar­get­ed a ves­sel op­er­at­ing in US South­ern Com­mand’s area of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty – which in­cludes Cen­tral Amer­i­ca, South Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean – and killed three male “nar­coter­ror­ists” on­board.

“On my Or­ders, the Sec­re­tary of War or­dered a lethal ki­net­ic strike on a ves­sel af­fil­i­at­ed with a Des­ig­nat­ed Ter­ror­ist Or­ga­ni­za­tion con­duct­ing nar­co­traf­fick­ing in the US­SOUTH­COM area of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty,” Trump wrote on Truth So­cial. “In­tel­li­gence con­firmed the ves­sel was traf­fick­ing il­lic­it nar­cotics and was tran­sit­ing along a known nar­co­traf­fick­ing pas­sage en­route to poi­son Amer­i­cans.”

Ac­cord­ing to the pres­i­dent, no US forces were harmed dur­ing the op­er­a­tion.

“STOP SELL­ING FEN­TANYL, NAR­COTICS, AND IL­LE­GAL DRUGS IN AMER­I­CA, AND COM­MIT­TING VI­O­LENCE AND TER­ROR­ISM AGAINST AMER­I­CANS!!!,” the pres­i­dent said.

Trump at­tached a video of the strike to his post.

Yes­ter­day's an­nounce­ment marks the mil­i­tary’s third known fa­tal strike on an al­leged drug boat this month, as the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion es­ca­lates its fight against nar­cotics traf­fick­ing.

Ear­li­er this week, Trump said the US mil­i­tary killed three peo­ple in a strike on a ves­sel in in­ter­na­tion­al wa­ters near South Amer­i­ca, al­leged­ly “trans­port­ing il­le­gal nar­cotics” from Venezuela.

De­tails on the lo­ca­tion of the strike or the method of at­tack re­main un­clear. In a video Trump post­ed on Mon­day, a small boat is seen in open wa­ter be­fore be­ing hit, trig­ger­ing a plume of black smoke — sim­i­lar to footage re­leased in yes­ter­day's so­cial me­dia post.

Asked lat­er Mon­day for ev­i­dence the ves­sel was car­ry­ing drugs, Trump re­spond­ed, “We have proof. All you have to do is look at the car­go that was spat­tered all over the ocean, big bags of co­caine and fen­tanyl all over the place.”

A sep­a­rate US mil­i­tary strike ear­li­er this month killed 11 peo­ple in the Caribbean al­leged­ly tied to the Venezue­lan Tren de Aragua gang. The Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion has pro­vid­ed lit­tle de­tail re­gard­ing the ac­tion. When pressed in the days af­ter the first strike, Sec­re­tary of De­fense Pe­te Hegseth de­clined to pro­vide specifics but said the US had “the ab­solute and com­plete au­thor­i­ty to con­duct that.”